Vacationing with Donald Trump
Larisa and I have been preparing for a much-needed vacation. I’ve been staring at a pretty hectic work schedule leading up to...
Angelkeep Journals: Locust Borer: Yay or nay?
Last week’s Angelkeep Journals column highlighted ash trees that had suffered now for years and lost or were losing the battle against...
Three memorable days in the southwest with an unfortunate ending
Less than two weeks ago we were feeling chilly as we quickly walked across campus so that we would arrive to the...
Angelkeep Journals: Angelkeep ash, Deam ash, dead ash
Once upon a time Angelkeep had a pair of twin ash trees. Before Angelkeep even had been assigned a name, an excavated...
No way to end a year. Way.
According to my calendar, the last week of the year begins on Christmas Day, the seventh-to-last day of the year.
Angelkeep ‘rap sheet’ for 2023 past
Angelkeep received an Easter, Autumn, several Christmas, and a couple New Year’s Letters. We like the reads. A “catch up” time. Most...
New Year’s traditions from near and far
Learning about different cultures and their traditions while visiting new places has always fascinated me.
It was one of...
Angelkeep’s top-five of 2023
Every media annually published their “top-something” in the days leading up to New Year’s Eve. News Banner’s award-winning staff voted on stories...
Time to start looking over the annual ‘Top’ lists of 2023
As we near the end of the year, I always look forward to reading news articles that are published about top happenings...
What Christmas brings to ‘such a world as this’
In my annual reading of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” I got stuck at the visit of Scrooge’s nephew, which is pretty...