Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Moving with the times

The older some people got, history becomes more important.  Older people reminisced about “the...

Keeping track of our internet footprint is driving us nuts

My wife was trying to make a credit card payment a few days ago when her computer...

Celebrating a life well lived as we say goodbye to Grandma

Saying goodbye has never been an easy task for me, and I would bet that most people...

What we’ll get for Christmas is a big old dose of stress

It’s that time of year when we have to take a look at our priorities — particularly...

And I don’t even know its name.

Treks around Angelpond are quite common in months not named January or February. The walk, alone, while not long, takes a good...

Reset your clocks, stink bugs are back

Yes we returned to the archaic activity of thinking we could change time by setting a clock forward one hour. It was...

Here we go again. Property taxes are back in the news.

My phone rang last Friday morning. It was a neighbor. “Have you opened your...

A painted turtle and Angelkeep paintings

Paintings adorned the interior walls of nearly every room at Angelkeep. Bluffton’s historical commercial artist and watercolorist, Harry Lindstrand, was well represented...

The first cut is the hardest and not just in quilting

The year Mom died I decided to make a quilt, with no earthly idea of how. I had bought some fabric that...

The hick has returned to Hoosierland

Have you ever felt like Mark Twain’s character in “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”? Out of place, even out of...