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I love this time of year. Everything is as green as can be, and my flowers are starting to bloom.
There are many types of gardeners, and my sisters Laurie and Mary are what I …
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Kathy Werner
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6/3/22
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Every lockdown drill.
Every stay in place announcement.
Every emergency phone call.
You text your child, “I love you.” You wonder, will this be the …
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Jim Patterson has a podcast and writes with the Kiplinger Letter about high gas prices.
Jim notes that “It is increasingly painful to fill up your gas tank.”
Is there …
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Ed Townsend
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5/31/22
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So here we are, again. Mass shootings have become a regular occurrence in American life. But even we, inured to bad news, are grief-stricken by the news of yet another school shooting …
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5/27/22
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Kept hearing reports recently about the baby formula shortage and in talking with a relative who recently had a baby I was surprised to hear her tell me that she could not get her baby formula.
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Ed Townsend
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5/24/22
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I used to root around in my car for coins when I knew I had to buy something small at the grocery store and didn't have any cash on hand.
Now I simply apologize for pulling out a credit card …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/24/22
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Patrick Scriven is a seminary educated lay person working professionally serving the Pacific Northwest conference of the United Methodist Church as director of Communications and Young People’s …
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Ed Townsend
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5/17/22
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The prom photos flooded social media this weekend — some taken by me, others by the teens’ own parents.
Quickly, I realized that there were faces that I didn’t recognize, and I …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/17/22
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Sometimes so many things change so quickly that they create unforeseen problems. I know that famed motto of the creators of Facebook was “move fast and break things,” and they certainly …
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Kathy Werner
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5/13/22
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Was thinking the other day how lucky we were to have good neighbors.
Remember growing up in my teenage years in the Village of Liberty and my mother always going to the next door neighbor and …
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Ed Townsend
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5/10/22
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Last week was a sad one at the Sullivan County Jail in Sullivan County, Tennessee. An inmate passed away due to a medical issue.
I don’t know the inmate.
I don’t know anyone who …
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Jeanne Sager
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5/10/22
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People often say, “One day we will look back at this and laugh.” When discussing my teenage years, however, we look back and say, “Was that real life?!”
I was a unique …
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Mike Werner - Guest Columnist
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5/6/22
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