Opinion

This is a wild time of year for newspapers, especially when the schools you cover have good athletes and strong teams.

Games are packed into small windows, travel time is plenty and farmers’ tans are well established.  Sports will fill a good portion of the paper, and honestly, we could fill more with all of the photos we have.

These kids are going to kill me.

Caregiving for a spouse or partner is a situation that many older adults find themselves in as they age. For example, a husband (the caregiver) helps his wife with dementia (the care receiver) through her day. The couple may be advanced in age, and sometimes the caregiver has a chronic condition as well.

Is it possible for man to love a machine?

After watching the movie “Ex Machina,” you’ve got to ask the question.

I doubted it was possible, until it happened to me.

Do you have any wild dreams that you know will likely never happen, but the distant possibility keeps you thinking about them anyway?

After 30 years of school, I am finally having my last day.  It’s a little sad, but change is always hard.  Growth doesn’t come from staying stagnant, and if it doesn’t make you uncomfortable ... oh, screw all those Pinterest quotes. Here’s what I got.

What I will miss:

When I started researching homeschool, I found out there are way more styles and methods than I ever imagined. You don’t just homeschool, you unschool, wildschool or roadschool, you’re classical or eclectic, Montessori or Charlotte Mason or Waldorf, you use unit studies or are more traditional.

Memorial Day is this weekend. What is your first thought when you hear that? Three day weekend? The start of summer? I really hope we all think of more than that on Memorial Day.

Since I think the younger generations, myself included, are losing touch with what this holiday really is, here is a little history about it: