Grace isn’t fair — it’s better Nancy Kennedy The other day I was in line at the grocery store with two women behind me having a conversation.One was telling the other about a family friend who gave one of her children a birthday gift.The other one asked, “Is that a problem?”“No — yes,” the first…
Have you ever been unfairly judged?Sheryl Boldt Divorce is painful, particularly when it separates you from your children. When I was a young mother, I had to pick up and return my children to my former husband every other weekend. Every time I dropped them off at the end of my weekend, I cried. Returning…
She Ain’t as Good as She Used to BeJudy Conlin I have belonged to the Moose in Tallahassee for ages and used to play bingo there twice a week with a little turn on the dance floor following each session. This hasn’t happened now for many years. It’s not because I no longer like bingo….
Slim Randles Genius is occasionally driven by desperation, and that’s what happened to Annette down at the Soup ‘R Market. The phone lines were fuzzy that day, she thinks, because of an electrical storm. That’s the only reason she can think of that she was stuck with 800 pounds of squash. She thought she was…
Battle of the bakery boxNancy Kennedy When I was a kid, my grandmother owned a bakery. Whenever we’d visit her, we would come home with huge pink bakery boxes filled with assorted butter cookies, plus bags of bagels and loaves of bread and the best cinnamon rolls and bear claws you could ever eat. Some…
Best stain removal remedy Nancy Kennedy It’s summertime, and for me that means wearing white pants. My rule about white pants: Always carry a spare pair. Because mustard happens. The other day, as I was out and about, I noticed several stains on the white pants I was wearing, which horrified me. It wasn’t mustard…
Slim Randles We all watched as the flag came by. It was the first thing in the parade, of course. Great big one, carried by two of the kids from the ROTC at the high school. The bands followed, along with the mounted patrol, the ski patrol in their summer-weight jackets, the float with the…
Let there be peace in America this July 4thGadsden County News Service When our Founding Fathers spent weeks drafting the Declaration of Independence, they ignited a war to secure America’s freedom from Britain’s control. In an interesting twist, the process of creating this groundbreaking document also laid the foundation for a more peaceful society for…
I Wanna Be Pretty Judy Conlin All my life, I’ve lived with this perennial femme fatale, my alter ego, Nurse Judy. She won a few beauty contests in our younger days ( nothing major, only local community or school events) but she lords it over me like she was some former beauty queen or celebrity….
Slim Randles We weren’t at all sure why Doc did it. Well, yeah, maybe human curiosity was the answer. Doc seemed to hate unanswered questions. It was about Sarah McKinley down at the Read Me Now bookstore. And yes, it was about the sign. Inside, you see, on the end of one of the stacks,…
