Musing, muttering and meandering through the pandemic

Hannelore Munson’s childhood saga is the kind of story motion pictures are made from. In 1945, the young Hannelore and her mother escaped...

Leaving behind a comfortable and familiar life for one of uncertainty takes courage, determination and sometimes a bit of luck. Three fri...

According to springtrainingcountdown.com, there are 123 days left until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training. It seems like a...

When a door opens in life, Frank Rigg has not been afraid to walk right through it. Take, for example, the time the young Brit accepted a...

I am new to disc golf. I've played a couple of times over the years, but it's not a game that has stuck with me. Some might argue that it...

Ready to make peace with moose and bear, Hans and Max climbed into Jacob's fire engine red Jeep pickup and set off for the North Maine Wo...

I realized after the second brandy on our first night in PA that we had not visited without children in over 22 years. Over the next 3 da...

There's something unique about the Pennsylvania landscape. As we drive east on route 76, the farms spread out even more than in Ohio, and...

After a lovely 2-hour ride through verdant corn fields of central Ohio, we passed the Denison baseball stadium on our left. The last time...

DAY 157 - I think it’s finally time to stop counting days. Today marks the end of our Bohn family extended day program as we begin our tr...

Rebecca Bishop understands how an empty stage transforms from a rough pencil sketch by the designer into a magical tableau. She has reali...

“No one likes a quitter.” I can’t recall who first said it to me or why, but the words have stuck like glue. There are others. Practice m...

I've been going to the Cape for summer vacations for as long as I can remember. As a child, we would go with my cousins and share a house...

The responsibility of supporting local arts and culture has taken on new and critical importance since the onset of the pandemic in 2020....

We were talking about summer jobs earlier tonight, and I recall one summer that almost changed my career path....well, not really, but it...

Day 3, Barton County Fair — We all woke and went about packing up our site with a lift in our step, knowing that we would be on the road ...

We woke to the recorded sounds of the frog races—the trumpet fanfare, the gunshot to start the race, the hop by hop call, finally a winne...

For several fun-filled summers before marriage and children and home ownership and all of the other responsibilities of adulthood, I play...

This may be the first summer in 15 years that we haven't suited up one of the boys for baseball. Josh is the only one playing baseball at...