Monday, December 23, 2024

Catching up, and forging ahead

Holly Gaskill Probably a dozen times in the last six months I’ve said “I really should write a...

Wherefore art thou, May Day?

In 1550, probably give or take a spring or two, Pieter (yes, Peter with an “i”) Brueghel...

Me and my sparrows and finches and spiders

There’s a bird on the back porch. More specifically, there is a female red finch with a nest on the back porch....

Angelkeep Journals – The next-best natural phenomenon: Brood X

For survivors of the eclipse comes summer’s round two of the supernatural. “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension...

New assessments on the way. Please let me explain …

Wells County property owners will be getting their updated property assessments later this week. These are what we call a “Form 11.”...

Yahoo. Another tax article (sarcasm alert)

After writing another lengthy paean (sarcasm alert) a couple weeks ago about property taxes, I planned on putting that horse to bed...

Angelkeep Journals: Angelkeep near-death by drowning

Last week’s column recalled death on Angelkeep ground as a result of deer being the losers from an encounter with a massive...

Getting there and back is the hard part

While you are reading this, I’m experiencing one of the most vexing problems of modern American society — a long-distance trip on...

The greatness, the power, the glory, the splendor.

Mother Nature did not disappoint. She lived up to the billing. In the aftermath of Monday’s total solar eclipse,...

Angelkeep Journals: Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones

Somewhere back in time the words of a song were forever implanted in this writer’s brain. The origin had long been forgotten....