Just Sayin'...

You may not know who P. Allen Smith is. He is a gardening enthusiast and has (or had) a gardening show for years. My mother watched it religiously. Mind you,...

Why is it that you can go into a virtually empty parking lot, park your car far away from the only other car on the lot, and when you come out there is someo...

First published in The Winchester Star on August 2, 2016. Last week I promised to let you know why Adrian, the usual author, was in rare form following his s...

First published in The Winchester Star on October 18, 2016. Adrian went to the Winchester Medical Center Diagnostic Center for an ultrasound on Friday. He in...

First ran in The Winchester Star on September 8, 2016. I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of pet peeves. I am going to share some and see if you agree....

First published in The Winchester Star on August 30, 2016. Bailey, our delightful yellow lab/shepherd/heaven-knows-what-else mixed pup, is in hog heaven. She...

This first ran in The Winchester Star on August 8,2016. I don’t think I would have made a good pioneer. My college roommates Marsha, and Dee, and I used to d...

This first ran in The Winchester Star on August 16, 2016. You know Murphy, right? The guy with the law? Whatever can go wrong will? I spent a Monday with him...

Two years ago in July, my husband Adrian underwent a kidney transplant at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Adrian is a newspaper man here in Wi...

This originally ran in The Winchester Star on August 1, 2016. When he was moved from the recovery room, he was sent to an ICU step-down room. Due to the pain...

I thought after the modest success I obtained when writing my husband's newspaper column after his kidney transplant two years ago, that maybe I should start...