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Share The Wealth
Have you started the Christmas shopping yet? Or are you one of the ultra efficient types that has everything purchased, wrapped, tagged and ready to go?
Mommy Musings - Soccer Mom? … TBD
It's been less than one month since Oakdale Youth Soccer League wrapped up its 2009 Season. My two-year-old is still running around with pink pom-poms asking, "Today soccer practice?" as her five-year-old brother sits in his room admiring his first trophy.
Wedding Belle Blues
As some of you may have noticed in my previous column, I slipped in a piece of personal information without too much fanfare. That is, that I am engaged. I'm not one to really share too much of my personal life in my columns because at work I'm about business.
Boost The Local Economy
Black Friday has come and gone but it is still a little too early to tell if it can be classified as a success.
Marg-Ins - Who Hit Fast Forward?
The saying around here has been pretty much the same from everyone. What?! How did it become December?
Stuff ‘n Nonsense - Time To Be Thankful…
It goes without saying that we should always count our blessings but it's a sad fact that many of us are remiss in our appreciation for those most important in our lives or the advantages we benefit from on a daily basis until a certain time of year duly reminds us.
Counting Our Blessings
Now is as good a time as any - actually, probably the best since it's tradition - to take stock of your situation and offer thanks.
Don’t Let This Pass
November 11; the day flags will fly, government offices and even schools will be closed in observation of Veterans Day. While the observances are being conducted here in the United States, many of those veterans are continuing their journey on our behalf on foreign soil, as well as here on the homefront. Even more ironic is that for the veteran who has returned home and to civilian ...
A Quickie In Vegas
I recently took my first trip to Las Vegas. Astonishing, I know. Pretty much everyone has been to Vegas. It's hard to believe that it's taken me this long. I have traveled quite a bit, starting when I was fairly young, but somehow never made it to Vegas.
Marg-Ins - The Weekend Immune System
Among the myriad of things that pass across my desk on any given day, one of them led me to the idea for this column. Actually a few things did but as I was tossing ideas around in my head regarding what to write about, a slip of the fingers sealed the deal.
Show Some Respect
Whether or not you exercised your right to vote on Tuesday, Nov. 3 - either by going to the polls or perhaps sending in your mail-in ballot, the sheer fact that you had that opportunity is not something everyone gets to experience.
Stuff ‘N Nonsense - The Sweet Scent Of Bookprint
I've always enjoyed a love affair with books. When I was a kid, the town library was located in a historic building that was also part museum. So if you went up the front stairs to the right, you found rows of books and a cozy reading area with a beautiful rock fireplace that in the winter sometimes had a crackling fire going; if you went left, ...
Mommy Musings - Pressing Issues
The past 30 days have really been pretty exciting.
Ike’s Insights – Let’s Impeach Roger Goodell
I try not to be a hater, but when it comes to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, I'm on the sidelines gulping down tiny green cups of hater-aide with a death stare that could melt steel.
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Marg-Ins – Iowa And The Island
November is such a busy month, leading right up to an equally hectic December, that it literally feels like a lifetime ago I wrote my last column. Since then, the Winter Formal has been attended (by my daughter, not me), massive quantities of turkey have been consumed, family gatherings have been enjoyed, and there have been a couple of other notable trips. One, if you can ...
More On Medicare – Getting Your Medicare Benefits
Some people may not realize it, but there are actually two ways to get Medicare benefits.
Still Matters - Decorations Are Part Of The Experience
Another year is coming close to an end. Every year seems to go by faster and faster. I have heard after a certain age everything starts rolling downhill. I don't believe that is entirely true, but I do believe the speed has increased each year.
Didi’s Dogs – House, Car: In Or Out?
DEAR DIDI: I am hoping you can help solve a disagreement that my husband and I have been having. We love your column and your answer will be our 'tiebreaker' of sorts. My husband thinks our dog should spend nights outside in the yard to protect our home. I feel sorry for him and want him in the house but my husband says I baby him too much. What do you think? Caring Mom in Manteca
Marg-Ins - Remembering Rosie
Timewise, we have fallen back, hopefully taking advantage of that extra hour of sleep over the weekend. Daylight Saving Time has ended and we have, incredibly, entered the final two months of the year with major holiday celebrations fast approaching. Halloween is over; recent windy days have kicked up swirls of leaves and the possibility of rain has returned to the forecast.
Ramblings – Back Home Again …
They say you can never go back. Well you can. But it will have changed and nostalgia will be all that remains. On a recent trip to England which I left for the United States more than 50 years ago, I got to visit the primary school that my sister and I attended when we were seven or eight years old.
RICH IN THOUGHT - Sorrowful Legends Of The Fall
There's something special when the leaves turn, days start to get shorter, the weather cools, and you start to feel a tingle of a nip in the air.
Ramblings – Time For Travel
Bowler hats and brollies, cricket on the village green, unceasing rain and wind, motionless sentries guarding a monarch, fish and chips with beer for an evening meal.
Marg-Ins - No Leaving Memories Behind
Now that fall has officially arrived, we are in my favorite season of the year.
More On Medicare
Some people with Medicare are asking lately if their Medicare coverage is affected by the new the Health Insurance Marketplace that starts in 2014.
DAWN’S COLUMN - Superstitious Minds
As I write this column, it's Friday the 13th and this morning a coworker sent out a mass, funny text message about remaining calm, but then warning about all the things not to do on this date. The text was a joke but it's funny, both humorous and odd, that some people really get wrapped up in such superstitions. Personally, I don't read anything into it. I don't worry ...
Editor’s Notebook – Not Forgotten
If you look at the date on this paper, it likely touches off a flurry of memories. Images, perhaps, seared in your memory. Where were you, what were you doing, 12 years ago today when the world as we know it changed forever? It's one of those days that can be brought back so clearly, so quickly, the emotions of that day still reachable, just under ...
Marg-Ins
One by one, readers, you have helped us make a huge difference in dealing with a devastating situation.
RICH IN THOUGHT - The First Step Is Admitting The Problem
Hi, my name is Rich and I am an addict.
Marg-Ins - Summer Of My (Dis)Content
There were five Wednesdays in July this year and that just makes it seem like it was months ago that my last column appeared. With everything that has transpired since, it almost feels like it, too. The column title is not really to indicate that I have anything to be discontent about, specifically, other than the world moving too fast for comfort. A ...
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