The festival season

We’re in the middle of festival season. That time of year when the sun shine brightest, the birds sing the loudest and anticipation is at it’s highest level since when you were a kid on the night before Christmas. I look forward to festival season like I used to look...

J.D.’s First Welcome Column, 11/28/13

In my 75+ years of life I have been witness to several miracles, buttoday marks a miracle of time that I will never see again, not inthis life on earth. It was pointed out in the news last night, thattoday is the first day that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah have fell...

Mud and Ice Cream!

As a child, my playmate and I once put ice cream and mud together and then tried to serve it as pie. We both thought we were creative geniuses but when she gave it to her mother, that combination didn’t go over too well. I once worked for an employer who liked...

Fiddling Around

World Fiddle Day “Fire on the mountain, run boy run, cause the devil went down to Georgia!” “You ain’t gonna bring that devil’s box in this here church!” “Now you people stop moving your feet to that fiddle music, it just ain’t right!” “Fiddle and a bow, and the...

The Pawpaw Patch

The daily grist: Where oh where is pretty little Susie? Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch (traditional) Spring has sprung! And there is no greater delight than watching the trees bloom each spring. Like many others during the COVID era I have been riding my bicycle...