I have a love/hate relationship with umbrellas. Sure, I love having one with me when it rains, and I try to keep one in the car. But I hate it when I reach in the back seat and come up empty-handed. Oh no, not again. Then I sit, with the windshield wipers flapping, wondering where I left the ...

June is Dairy Month. For more than thirty years I was directly tied into the dairy industry. I married a dairy farmer who brought me to his home area. Everything was new to me except for what I learned while we were dating. I was not used to the long days and the interruptions at ...

Wild horses couldn’t have kept me away from our recent trip to New England. It was important. Rory, The Princess of Boston, was graduating from high school, and her brother Malcolm’s final concert of the year with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra was on the agenda. For the same ...

In 1925, John Scopes, a Dayton, Tenn., public school science teacher, thought evolution was a reality and that it should be discussed. However, he was arrested for not teaching the Bible’s creation. The result was the “Monkey Trial.” Scopes was found guilty and fined $100. In 1860, ...

One never knows what might be encountered on returning to a cabin on the Allegheny River or in the surrounding wild area after an absence of a full season or longer. One year, a limb had fallen from high in the linden tree that towers over the structure and punched a hole in its metal roof. A ...

By REP. KATHY RAPP We all want hospitals to have fully staffed nursing teams to ensure patients are receiving proper care. Nurses are the backbone for any well-run hospital. Canadian physician and founder of Johns Hopkins University Dr. William Osler once said, “the trained nurse has become ...