She was an agent of change. And that’s a good thing.
Mick Cupp was the local United Way chairman in 1999. The board was looking for a new executive director. Pamela Beckford remembers...
Words of affirmation
Thursday morning I spent some time with our now-retired United Way director, Pamela Beckford. As the current board chair, she and I...
Angelkeep: Bird feeder incidents: Don’t look up
Usually a trip to the Angelkeep bird feeders became mundane, habitual, insignificant, and even more irrelevant than the last pick on the...
A solution for Valentine’s Day: Dinner and a show
Here we are, the day before Valentine’s Day, and I have been in a little bit of...
Maybe there is something to this ‘threes’ thing
There’s a niggling belief that bad things always happen in threes. From natural disasters to household mishaps,...
The online powers-that-be are convinced I’m retiring
I’m always a bit perplexed by the ads and suggested-for-you content that appear when I’m logged into one of my social media...
Angelkeep: Hibiscus rehabilitation
Angelkeep had a continuing practice of picking up a nearly deceased plant from one of the local garden plant vendors for an...
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...
When a daughter comes to visit, a father is delighted
Some of you know this and some of you don’t, so I’ll try to bring everyone fully up to speed at the...
Here are three Saturday mysteries to solve
My friend Mike Firenza kept sending me emails in 2021. They average about two or three per...