Much to my father’s surprise, it was a hand-shake deal. 

For all purposes the 2020-2021 school year is over and in many cases students have already brought home their report cards. Hopefully most students received praises for their grades.

We’ve always prided ourselves with the fact we lived in a democracy and enjoyed the benefits of the Land of The Free.

Sometimes it takes challenges or temporary setbacks to make us appreciate even the everyday things that we take for granted and then we realize how lucky we really are.

We don’t live in a normal household. Before you jump to conclusions, let’s us do a little explaining.

We’ve been told by health authorities that as we get older we don’t walk as much as when we were younger.

  “Driven . . . like leaves before an autumn wind.” That statement by writer/poet Robert Southey was made sometime between 1813-1843.

  Cleaning out an old bookcase, I came across a book instructing the reader, “How to Prepare Your Speech.”  Curiosity got the best of me and I blew off some of the dust, opened a few page