What new place will you visit in 2024?

Making time to travel is something that has always been important to me. Writing about those trips and other travel-related topics is...

Anelkeep Journals: Lucky to have lawn clover

There are new proponents purporting the planting of lawn with only clover rather than grass. The primary advantage comes in the fact...

Holding hands: The simplest of romantic entanglements

I once had the opportunity to hear Al McGuire at a dinner inHuntington. He was the keynote...

Another Bluffton product I wish I could have met

One of the best parts of this business I’ve been involved in for a few decades is...

Who wants to bypass Ossian? Well, me. But …

It is an unusual Area Plan Commission meeting that draws a big crowd. It means something has...

Wee harlequin bug, by any other name …

True! Ask any citizen of Alberta, Canada. They would tell you of their wee harlequin bugs. They...

Angelkeep missed the wedding ceremony

Angelkeep kept track and photographed the process of eggs being added to wren nests throughout the summer....

Groundhog Day. Again.

We are surviving. Barely. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law, a.k.a. the uninvited...

Christmas is too much, perhaps, but it’s still good

Christmas reminds me of the Bluffton Free Street Fair. Before the anti-BFSF crowd descends on 125 N. Johnson St....

An unexpected and practical post-Christmas present

It was the gift that my parents didn’t have for us on Christmas Day that turned out to be one of the...