Sunday, July 20, 2025

Funny Things Kids Say: Presence is often the best present

Neal and Karla took their two granddaughters to a Dairy Queen in Fort Wayne on a Saturday night. Paisley is 10, and...

Here’s the Thing – Road trip: Good friends, Montgomery, the Legacy...

I needed to make a road trip to Florida a couple of weeks ago. I won’t make...

Destination Recreation

Okay, fellas, I know that guys tend to be last-minute shoppers, so here is a reminder that Christmas is tomorrow. 

A Joyful Noise: Tunes of Truth

While waiting for “Christmas Carol” cast to walk across the snow-smothered stage and sing “In the Bleak...

Insights: Have a Christmas with a ‘Merry Heart’

Just for the fun of it this Christmas, why not focus on having a “Merry Heart”? Who says that a person can’t...

An unexpected surprise for December

“Mom, someone’s here! I saw them coming in the driveway!” A quick glance out...

Family tree book donated to library

Larry Bayless, a former resident of Wells County and a stilt walker in more than 25 Bluffton...

Here’s The Thing: The continuing chronicle of camping calamities

With apologies to Clement Clark Moore and the poem first published December 23, 1823, in the Troy Sentinel newspaper, upstate New York: 

Funny Things Kids Say: Fertile imaginations can help

Recently Catherine and Diego of Santiago, Chile, bought a home with a nice-size yard. With their children Priscilla, 6, and Oliver, 4,...