“How are you doing?” That’s what a neighbor next door yelled across the front yard as she showed us the pink begonias she was going to plant. Also, as he walked his dog, another neighbor shouted from the street, “How’re you doing?” We asked them the same question. We all know what people mean. They […]

What have you been feeling as you are going through this pandemic? Many people have been feeling some grief and sense of loss. There is so much to grieve amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. There have been many lives lost of in our state, our country and the world. At this time we see that […]

How are you living through this “lockdown”? We wondered because most people are really getting tired of it. We don’t know how long this distancing will go on and that fact can be quite disturbing. So we have to find ways to live through it in the best ways possible. Actually, some studies shows that […]

What life lessons did you learn from your mom? With Mother’s Day near, we want to honor all moms, past and present, and what they taught us. For me (Doug), this will be a deeply personal column because my mother, Althea Nodland, passed away peacefully last week at home with us. Where does one start […]