“Don’t worry, be happy.”Great advice. Easy to give; hard to live.Am I right?We all worry. It’s an unavoidable part of life. We know we probably...

Growing up, we had two very large sugar maple trees in our backyard. They offered us joy and amusement pretty much year-round.First and foremost,...

Question: I enjoy reading your column in the weekly newspaper.  I have a question I hope you can address. We’ve had some heavy fog recently and I...

A  really big event in Polk County government business occurred last month, or maybe it was during the last week of January. No matter, just know...

The following Rabbit Hole Ramblin' first appeared on April 29, 2024. The same early spring weather sparked these memories again so it only seemed...

I’m good at lots of things.Let’s just get that fact out of the way.But.Every once in awhile I come across a task that presents challenges beyond...

Tonight I browned hamburger in preparation for sloppy joes, and it wasn’t a big deal. It hasn’t been a big deal for at least three years. I hadn’t...

Question: The longer I’ve been driving the more issues I see on the highway. I’m certain there are a number of people that don’t understand...

Oh boy, what a different last 30 days it has been.As many of you may know, I have been out taking over the domestic duties while my blushing bride...

I’m not quite sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line it crept up on me and then attacked with the stealth of a mountain lion. Now, I’ve...

Last week focused on the myriad things we – as humans – can agree on. What started as a short list morphed into something more extensive, so much...

It happened not once, not twice, but thrice.On a splendid February day, as I swept fronds from the carport that had fallen from a palm tree, a...

“The weather wasn’t this bad when we left town!” I said to my wife, who was driving.“Yeah, well, now that we are out of the protection of the city buildings, the wind is...

Question: I am looking to purchase a used vehicle. I have been online and checking things out and some of these listings appears too good to be...

It seems lately that we have had a lot of screen time in our house. The downside of that is you can only binge-watch a program so many times before...