"A bit of autumn" Every time I woke up Saturday night into Sunday morning, I thought about the upcoming Confrontation. ...

I got my camera out yesterday. I decided the night before that I would take pictures outside around our yard before going into the newspa...

Changing leaves from a past autumn. Happy autumn to you, dear readers! It’s one of my favorite times of the year. Perhaps it’s a reli...

My view from the front steps of my office building on a recent evening . Do you ever wonder how you got from your childhood to wher...

The library in Altavista. Our county has four branches. Does that title seem like an exaggeration? Over the top? Maybe. Books didn’...

This is a repost of an entry that I originally posted on Sept. 11, 2012 under a different title. It has now been 13 years since that awf...

If I look at only the negatives in my life—mental illness, dysfunctional family, emotional and verbal abuse—it’s easy to think that all of ...