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Come spring they say that a young man’s fancy turns to love. But for this old Kentucky girl, spring is time to strap on big Partisan boots for the…
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The stage lights are extinguished; the main player has exited through the curtain and the bit players are standing around wondering, “What next?”.…
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OK, Look—Whoops! This is radio. So, OK, listen. Well, maybe you don’t care to listen, I’m going to speak about books meaningful to me, so if this isn’t of…
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Occasionally, it’s like I’ve been dropped on my head and lost clear reason—in those times I decide to delve into my backlog of…
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“Jeanette, you’re just a glutton for punishment,” my Mother would say to me when I had doggedly persisted in what she perceived as self-destructive…
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“Hey, y'all, watch this!” When you hear someone yell that at a gathering, you can be pretty sure that an ambulance soon will be needed. Julia Reed wrote…
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“Once you’ve bought a novel in your pajamas, there’s no turning back.” So says a character in the novel “The Overstory,” as he drives a forklift in a…
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Today our Photo of the Week is certainly fitting for the weather outside. It depicts snow in spring. This photo of snow and a daffodil and a leftover…
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Joyous greetings! Seems like a strange sentiment in these troubled times, but it also seemed odd when expressed by women in France, Germany, England and…
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Oh Lord help me! There’s no sugar-coating the situation, I’m a blurter! If I hadn’t been quite sure that this is a bad thing, one look at our Dear Leader…