Letter: America, we have a problem
We do not have a revenue problem in this country, but we sure do have a spending problem.
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If the shoe fits
Working on President’s Day was preferable to taking the day off given Tuesday’s looming production deadlines. Instead, a Friday would afford daylight hours to explore a recreational trail in another aspect.
By the fire on a sunny winter day
It feels good to be getting a real winter. Having snow in February when we expect it gives me hope that we won’t have it in April. More snow means moist soil, and cold temperatures means fewer bad bugs.
On living a long life
People ask me, “How does it feel to come into your 90th year?” Here’s what I tell them.
When life changes but you’re not ready
Life never asks for permission before it shifts. One day, everything feels steady, predictable, familiar. The next, you’re standing in the middle of change you never saw coming, or worse, change you saw coming but didn’t want to face.
Opposes SAVE Act
Anti-voter bills like the “SAVE Act” would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote.
Tinkering around the edges
My new year’s resolution this year is to do better regardless of conditions. It will be tricky to track and the math will be fuzzy.
A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS WINTER
You should go skating—crawling, I ought to say—over a pond of glare ice this winter. Take the pond you are most familiar with. Go early on a bright day, before any skater arrives, and lying flat upon the clear, “black” ice, study the bottom of the pond and the fish that swim below you.
Lip balm and tape measures
The drawer to the left of our kitchen stove is our useful drawer. Potholders and oven mitts dwell in the front. A 5.5” x 15” organizer tray holds things which we don’t use for cooking but are handy to have in the kitchen. After a while, it also holds a lot of things that get shoved there when we want to clear things off the counter.
Cozy winter
The weather is set to be cold, extremely cold, this week, with temperatures dipping below zero degrees at night for a few days. Today is Saturday, Jan. 18, and I’m sitting here in my favorite chair, wrapped in a blanket, and I can’t help but think about makes a winter truly cozy.