Bah humbug to going goblin in 2022 or beyond

It doesn’t take much to put me in the Christmas spirit as we get closer to Dec. 25, but there is one...

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...

Angelkeep: Easter Angelbunnies

“Here comes Peter Cottontail, hoppin’ down the bunny trail, hippity hoppity Easter’s on its way,”  ... Bringing Angelkeep such...

Angelkeep Journals: Surprise-Surprise! Iris!

“Surprise” was analogous to Angelkeep. The word and name go hand-in-hand as appropriately as peanut butter and jelly, ham and eggs, or...

Angelkeep Journals: Those carnations, how they do go wild

Mom used to ask, “Can you quit being so wild?”  That memory probably came from days when the rain...

Birthdays and basketball royalty

November 1, 2023. My younger brother’s birthday. For years I have conveniently ‘forgotten’ when Chad’s birthday was. I do...

Aiming for a little less screen time in 2024

The white Christmas that many of us hoped for in northeast Indiana arrived a few weeks too late and has certainly caused...

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....

Anniversary celebration on a refrigerated Indiana toboggan run

How do you best celebrate your second anniversary, especially when it falls on the first day of...

The things we take for granted — like flushing the toilet

The last time I wrote about the Regional Sewer District, which was a number of years ago...