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Recently, I saw a phrase, “summer to the max,” on the cover of a Better Homes & Gardens magazine. I like the idea of maximizing summer. For me, maximizing the summer days would involve foods, outdoor activities, and family-and-friend gatherings.

Perhaps the most common attitude among religious people is that one church is as good as another.

Wednesday night, Garey and I went with our daughter, Natalie, and granddaughter, Sabria, and Sabria’s friend, Laela, to the Summer Solstice concert at the Capital Arts Theater in Bowling Green.  The concert featured Irish music performed by two local musicians, Skip Cleavanger and his wife, Rebec

The word “bittersweet” causes me to think of a mixture of pleasure and pain. Bittersweet connections –for me – generally include more pleasure than pain. Life experiences usually bring about our bittersweet connections.