By Karen D. Lorentz What makes for special vacation memories? There’s no one-size-fits all answer, but there are some fun things to do that might just tip the scales to remember the year when we didn’t have a ton of […]
Category: Column
The Movie Diary
The Movie Diary: Joy to the world
By Dom Cioffi For as long as I can remember, I’ve been making and breaking New Year’s resolutions. Every year it’s the same thing: Once Christmas wraps up, and over the days leading up to New Year’s Eve, I begin […]
The Outside Story
The Outside Story: Crows
Crow communication is cawfully complicated By Joe Rankin “Caw! Caw!” Every spring we hear it. And my wife says, “that’s My Crow.” It’s apparently the bird’s name. She capitalizes it in her tone. I think she hasn’t bestowed a more […]
Altitude Sickness
Adventures in training an aggressive guinea pig
By Brady Crain Pip “the impaler” is Brady Crain’s current pet pig. There have been worse times for Pip the Impaler. Even now, he sits in a pile of hay, giving me his apple eyes, knowing that just beyond his […]
Looking Back
Ice skating remembrances
What kid doesn’t love ice skating? Back in the 1950s our Rutland City neighborhood had a couple of swampy areas that froze over. After a snowstorm the kids would get shovels and turn them into skating rinks. The ice was […]
Generation Y
Quiet riot
Did you hear about the 2,000-person brawl that took place at Kentucky’s second-largest indoor shopping mall last week? A teenage riot of epic proportions, it shut down the Mall St. Matthews in suburban Louisville two hours early on Boxing Day, […]
Rockin' The Region
Rockin’ the Region with Donal O’ Shaughnessy
Submitted Donal O’Shaughnessy You will get more than just music from Donal O’ Shaughnessy when you go see him play at McGrath’s Irish Pub this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. It is a show filled with jokes, stories and […]
The Outside Story
The Outside Story: What colors can deer see?
By Dave Mance III If you’re a hunter who’s ever ordered something from a sporting goods company, it’s probably safe to assume that you’ve been inundated with catalogues over the past four months. God help you if you save your […]
Column
A New Year and a new beginning
By Bryan Golden The New Year is a time of resolutions. It’s a time when people commit to making a change in their life. Losing weight, changing jobs, saving money, making money, a new relationship, getting in shape, going back […]
Altitude Sickness
What almost killed me made me stronger
To follow up on the post-injury introspective I wrote about in my past column, here is a comparative study with a different injury, more comprehensive but slightly less acutely catastrophic. On Thursday March 22, 2012, I finished a contracting job […]