I was on the front porch when you drove by and I waved, glad spring is upon us, but we must keep reminding ourselves because this isn’t reported by the national news media who also never points out 7,000-10,000 steps a day is good for you and that you should never staple anything to your forehead. They assume you know this. Newspapers never point out that Mexico is to the south of us, and though spring has arrived, earlier cold temperatures reminded us that late March was slo

I was on the front porch when you drove by and I waved, thinking I love Christmas but the season is a trial for us Christians who must trudge down aisles of flashy gift items as “Here Comes Santa Claus” drizzles down upon us from ceiling speakers and we struggle to keep the nativity in our mind, a difficult thing, thanks to Charles Dickens.