Bits & Pieces – Fall back and enjoy!
Fall is just around the corner and I am ready. I love this time of the year; warm days, cooler nights and beautiful colors as the leaves begin to...
Sally Lael
Bits & Pieces – Veins are so overrated
Last week was a crazy week for me. I had four appointments in Springfield over a period of three days. Three of them were for medical reasons and one...
Bits & Pieces – Grandparents Day and precious memories
This Sunday, September 8, is Grandparents Day! Let us all gather around and really celebrate!I’m so glad there’s a Grandparents Day. It’s a day that we...
Bits & Pieces – He cried wolf—too many times
Now that school has started, I remember those days when my three kids were in school. How well I remember the chaos, the panic when one of them couldn’t...
Bits & Pieces – Diamonds all over the place
As editor of the newspaper, I get a lot of news/junk/information/stupid stuff, etc. from so many different sources, I couldn’t even begin to name them...
Bits & Pieces – Checking out a new home
My daughter, Buffy and family, moved into a new house last week so I had to go check it out last Saturday.Buffy has lived in Springfield since she...
Bits & Pieces – Restarting an old hobby
I love house plants! But sometimes they don’t like me.When I was a stay at home mom, many, many years ago, I had a lot of house plants. I studied them...
Bits & Pieces – What to do when your technologically challenged?
I’m almost afraid to write this column because it’s an admission, once again, of how technology and I don’t get along.It’s a good thing for me that I have a lot of friends who understand technology today, especially...
Violence is never the answer
There was a man who always purchased Chevrolet vehicles. He believed in Chevys and felt they were the best vehicles on the road.
This man, whom we’ll call Chester, had a best friend, Forester, who was a Ford man. He would never think of purchasing any other vehicle or drive anything but a Ford.
Bits & Pieces – We’re one crazy family
It’s a known fact that two crazy people found each other, fell in love and got married. Yep, that sums it up about me and Chuck. The scary part is these two crazy people reproduced; three times! So as a result we have three crazy kids.