Many years ago my good friend Terry Cozart told me my writings are often feel-good stories. I never considered myself a writer, but I will accept being a storyteller. If my words make you feel good, or bring pleasant memories from your past, I have succeeded. Recently a middle-aged man and ...
The year of 2023 seemed to have come and went so quickly that it almost didn’t happen. It is the time of year when hundreds of commercials, advertising Medicare Supplements have come to an end. The year of commercials that announced women poop, has also passed. Still, we have to deal with ...
I will have to confess that I pondered writing this story for a couple days. Friday night at 3 a.m. I was staring at my alarm clock’s projected time on the ceiling. With each minute that passed, I could see a different face looking back at me. Some seemed to say, “Leave it alone, it is not ...
Over a half century ago in 1966…I was part of unique family gathering. A gathering that was not my family, but one that I had been invited to be part of for a day. It took place at Oak Hafer's family farm out Proctor. The long-ago event that I shared was a family tradition. A family ...
To have a remote chance of securing a spot in the playoffs, Paden City had to take care of business on Friday night, November 3, 2023 at Berger Field on senior night. Despite playing without injured senior leader Joey Baker who suffered a foot injury against Clay Battelle the previous week, ...
My story this week will tell you of an out of the way group of islands in the very north of Scotland, Orkney Isles. In the group there is seventy total islands. Of that number, only twenty are inhabited. Those who live there can trace history back over thousands of years. The rolling country ...
As you may know Mary and I traveled to the British Isles a few weeks ago. The trip was everything we had hoped for. Mostly good weather, friendly people, and seas that were not too bad for those with weak stomachs. That trip was on our bucket list for many years, 53 to be exact. We had ...
To my thinking, it was one of the saddest days in the recent history of the Wetzel County Board of Education, the board collapsed under the pressure of a single group of citizens. The collapse was so swift it was over in an instant. At the same time the room erupted in wild cheering, as the ...
History is something I have enjoyed for most of my life. Why the fascination with the past? I believe we can find answers in todayás world by history recorded in words. History can be the greatest teacher of wisdom, that is if we do not close our eyes and minds to its teachings. The creation ...
It is hard to turn on the national news and not hear of whose planning on running next year for the highest elected position in the land, President. Election Day is nearly sixteen months in the future. Between now and then, millions of dollars will be spent asking you, no not asking, telling ...
