Setting My 2025 Reading Goals

As 2024 draws to a close, I am reflecting on unrealistic expectations and my attempts to address them. For as long as I can remember…
Plastic In Land and Air

In part six of her series on plastics, Julie Borgerding July talks about the prevalence of plastics in everything we touch, from in our homes…
A 1950s Gentleman-Type Doctor Exchange

I asked real estate sale guru-friend Steve Sprafka if he had any famous clients or notable sales recently. “Eric Clapton bought two 1969 Fender twin…
Winter’s Gifts

Building Community The snow blower is ready to go. It is possible; of course, we will have another poor excuse for a winter, like last…
How plastics affect water

In part five of her series on plastics, Julie Borgerding July talks about the long- and short-term effects of plastic on our water systems. Clean…
Creating A Picture of Hope

Building Community The mural on the wall was a fair representation of what the young people who accompanied me to St. Louis observed in the…
“Righting the Mother Tongue” is an Eye-Opening Look at English Language

Have you ever thought about the English language? The language you speak, read and write? If you haven’t, “Righting the Mother Tongue: From Old English…
How to not get SAD this year!

As winter begins to approach, it brings many joys – the upcoming holidays, hockey season, snow falling on a quiet street –but it also brings…
Lunch with the one and only Mr. Positive

The fall weather is extra-ordinary today. 80°. Blue sky. Patches of atmosphere with the correct water content and altitude have been tricked into Cumulo-Nimbus white…