Happy Birthday, Marsha! ……It’s been seven years since I lost my only sibling. It seems like just yesterday that I sat here with my coffee to write her obituary. I didn’t realize that day, however, how much I had lost. That realization came day after…
I’m going to do something I have never done before today; write a letter to the President of Walmart about my last (and I mean last because I will never again grace their doors) experience at his store. I’m not naive enough to think it…
……I couldn’t make the photo I wanted to feature in this article work. The person who took the photo way back in 1946 (my Mom) had my Dad’s head to close to the top and I wanted to make sure I got the little girl…
……We have a mystery dear readers! George Hines brought Shannon a print ad he had found from a newspaper of years ago. It was a “Vote for John D. Herron” ad that was unique. It described what he did and how he did it. I…
……..My daughter has become a city farmer? Well, that seems like an oxymoron, but all the years she spent living “out the highway” as we locals say, she never once had a garden. While she enjoyed the veggies of her neighbors’ labor, she never once…
…….One of my favorite movies from the 1970’s had a TV Anchor who ended the newscast with “Stay classy, San Diego!” The 1st District was anything but classy at the press conference for the announcement of the new plant Cleveland-Cliffs is locating in the old…
…..The hardest part of being an elected official is to know when it’s time to go. Holding onto power and the elective office you hold is ingrained in most politicians and the higher the position, the harder to let go. Although we all know there…
……Like most mothers the winds of time blow too swiftly for me. My brain told me when we I gave birth that these two kids would grow up and become adults, but in my hearts I froze them in time and I return to that…
I am writing words I never thought would hit my pen or laptop. I am a Democrat. I think Unions saved lives and brought a living wage and humane working conditions to our people. I truly believe we are are our brothers/sisters’ keeper and we…