STUDENT INTRO: School of Thought was written by Parkersburg South High School senior Joseph Parsons. When he isn’t contemplating conspiracy theories, he enjoys reading graphic novels, is an avid Weezer fan and likes listening to other rock, rap, and electronic music and spending time playing ...
What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower! — Roland R Kemler *** Think about climate change. If you’ve been paying attention, you are likely picturing devastating floods, raging wildfires, melting glaciers, or parched earth. Few of us would think of the lovely, ...
“When peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.” I remember singing this beautiful old hymn, one of my all-time favorites, at the funeral of my grandmother. The words have come ...
Fans of historical fiction are no stranger to Kristin Hannah. I first fell in love with her writing with “The Nightingale” and when “The Women” was announced, there was no doubt I needed to read it. In her recent novels, Hannah focuses on a historic event and/or time period which is ...
As we get older material things that used to be so important to us seem to have become less important. For instance I used to collect beautiful expensive M.I. Hummel’s figurines and my husband bought me many different large and small Hummel’s for different occasions and I was always so ...
Late last night, I returned from a business trip to Houston where I spoke at the Global Plastics Summit on the advantages for manufacturing in the Shale Crescent USA region. I was part of a panel discussing “The Changing International Dynamics of the Industry.” Plastics are an increasing ...