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Ashland third-graders spend day on a farm
LOUDONVILLE, Ohio — The little black-and-white Holstein calves looked so cute to third-grader Vassiliya Draganova, that she decided to name one. “Bella,” she called it, which means “beautiful” in Italian. “They’re wee little and they like to lick your thumb,” she told some of her classmates — all third graders in Regina Herrick’s class from
How do you spell p-r-e-t-e-e-n?
It’s been a few years, but I’m fairly certain I taught my son to speak. I have a dim recollection of spending many happy afternoons coaxing his sweet baby-self to say, “Mama! Ma-ma! You can do it Sweetie, Mama!,” only to thrill to that blessed, blissful day when he cracked a wide, gummy grin and
Tips on talking to creditors when you can’t pay your bills
URBANA, Ill. — Don’t wait for your creditors to call you about unpaid bills. Instead contact them to explain your situation, said University of Illinois Extension consumer and family economics educator Lois Smith. “Rather than begin expensive collection procedures, most creditors would prefer to receive smaller payments on a regular basis,” Smith said. She noted
It’s about time: Spring finally here
Every spring, this column is committed to bring you in poetry the scent of hyacinths as you read once again the advice of an old saying: If thou of fortune be bereft And in thy store there be but left Two loaves: sell one, And with the dole, Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul …
Farm adventures with city folks
There is nothing quite like a city kid coming to the country. The lessons learned, on both sides of this fence, may be humorous and luminous, shining a light on two very different ways of looking at the very same thing.
The measure of a man and a marriage
Pity the people who flocked to be married this past weekend, convinced that all it took was a magic number, in this case the date of 7-7-07, to insure their wedded bliss.
No choice but to go batty
You just never know when you’ll have a brush with greatness, or in my case, great fear. As near as I remember, I was cleaning a high shelf in the bathroom when there was a flash of movement, a flutter, and my momentary thought “oh, why is there a big leaf up here?” before the “leaf” became coherent enough to make a beeline (bat line?) for my hair.
Working the bugs out of family sick times
You really need to be in tip-top shape to come down with anything nowadays. The down-and-out workout.
Burning up: Anger and exercise
Up to now, I have resisted physical activity in the form of “working out” the way fish, say, resist learning to ride a bicycle.
Life Out Loud: Replaced, rejected, retired
The most dedicated servant is always the last to see the layoff coming.
One minute, you think you have the utmost in job security.
