With warm weather on the horizon, I am eager to be outdoors. During cold weather, I usually pick up weight but lose it again during the warm-weather months.
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Late Bloomer
By Cheryl Hughes
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This week, I will conclude my ‘80’s Top Ten series. As you recall, last week I began the countdown of toys of the decade.
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“If you tell that story one more time, I’m going to divorce you!” I say this to Garey as he starts once more to tell his sister about the time, when in first grade, he was to represent his class as a fall festival candidate, but his mother got the ti
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As a retired teacher, a mom and a grandmother, I am a school-calendar follower, and our local school district’s spring break will arrive soon. I love school calendar breaks because my children’s and grandchildren’s schedules are more relaxed. I am happy to see them rest a little more.
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Every spring since 2016, I have grieved the fact that Mike Huckabee did not become a presidential candidate, and subsequently did not become president of the United States. I grieve this fact each spring while I am drowning in stacks of bank statements, credit card statements, 1099 forms and rec
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This week, I will conclude my ‘80’s gadget countdown. We pick up at #5. Throughout the ‘80’s, mos
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Governor Beshear criticized socially conservative policy on human life and the family in his weekly news conference: “Every moment that they focus on these culture war type issues, trying to create a new bogeyman for the next election, trying to rile people up, it means they’re not doing importan
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I remember talking to Aggie, Garey’s mom, about how much the world had changed since she was a little girl. We both agreed that for her, it was like living on another planet. I am here to report that I have arrived at the “another planet” phase of my life.
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