“We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing to pay rate hike after rate hike.” “We are small business owners who have lost our stores, our restaurants, to the way we pay our bills for ...
A must-read essay written recently for The Guardian newspaper by Adrienne Matei titled “From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: Why Strongmen Rely on Women at Home” offers an important analysis of what is referred to as the “womanosphere” or the “femosphere.” Matei describes the ...
I like to keep the yard mowed so it looks as smooth as a baby’s bottom. Nothing makes a place look bad like an overgrown yard, except junked cars and trash. I have a two-cycle Lawn-Boy that’s 25 years old, maybe older. I bought it new after years of mowing with inferior machines. Just ...
“The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre,” by Philip Fracassi. Publication date: Sept. 30. 416 pages. In slasher movies, the “final girl” is the last girl standing to confront the killer. Maybe she lives, maybe she dies, but she usually survives to the end because she’s ...
After months of preparation and tireless weekly meetings with my wonderful committee we are down to one week left. The West Virginia Symphony League-Parkersburg is getting ready to bring up to the stage our biggest fundraiser of the year, “Fall into Fashion.” On Saturday, Oct. 4, at the ...
Our grandson is a U.S. Marine. This week I told him about his great-grandfather, my dad, who was a proud U.S. Marine. Dad and other Marines I know are Marines, even if they aren’t currently serving. When the “The Marines’ Hymn” – “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of ...
