There is a fine line between the emotions of love and hate. Far too often that line is crossed between the persons we like the most. Sometimes there is no reversal but deep down within us is the suppressed desire to reconcile; whether we admit it or not, it surely must exist. This story is […]

Greetings from the island everyone. Hope all of you have thawed out from last week’s ice-over, and the short cold spell this week.  It has not been much of a mild winter as the so-called experts predicted.  Who actually makes those predictions anyway, that furry groundhog rodent?   Sometimes I think so. The chickens fared just […]

Have you  heard about the adoptive parents who are in trouble with the Russian government for making their son drink hot sauce when he spoke a bad word? Perhaps hot sauce is too harsh, but in when I was young, it was soap. I can still remember the foamy mouth that seemed to leave a […]

As the happy couple sat across from me, all I could do was smile in admiration. “I had a brand new car,” Kenneth Wooldridge chuckled when I asked how he and his wife, Billie Ruth met.  Billie Ruth explained,  “I worked at the local drug store, Carpenters’s, and he came in one day. That was […]

Calhoun County Historical Commission Most of us, especially the folks who like to read can remember that James Michener once lived in Texas.  Many of us have read his book Texas and even some of his other books.  One that is not so well known is the book The Eagle and the Raven.  It is […]