Whatever happened to manners? It used to be that “Please”, “Thank you” and “Excuse me” were part of the everyday vocabulary.
Recently I looked in the mirror and discovered that time has caught up with me. Crow’s feet, laugh lines and wrinkles have taken over skin that was once smooth as a baby’s bottom. As I peered at my reflection I gave a little disgusted groan for the pesky gray hairs that are scattered on my head and shine like tinsel on a Christmas tree and wished that there were fewer of them.
I first met Pete Gould 56 years ago on a school bus. It was 1956, and I was a new Ravenswood High School freshman, whose family had just arrived from Spokane, Washington.
The new health reform law is expected to create 32 million more insured Americans, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The federal government plans to expand Medicaid to low-income adults and subsidize purchases on the health-insurance exchanges when it requires most Americans to carry insurance in 2014.
Charlotte Pauline Schwarz Mays, 91 of Parkersburg, formerly of Ripley, passed away Thursday, January 19, 2012 at Wingate Senior Living Community, Parkersburg following a long illness.
When winter is over the best two seasons, spring and summer bring flowers. Even in the winter I dream of planting flowers, they make my world a liitle better when I look to see what I have accomplished.
Garnet M. Sands, 86, the Sherman Community of Ravenswood, past away on January 7, 2012 at Ravenswood Village, in Ravenswood, WV.
Have you ever had a person in your life that you looked up to as a mentor? These individuals can make you a better person, parent, worker and help you reach your full potential.
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CHARLESTON – Karen Sue Dixon, age 54, of Charleston, passed away Monday May 23, 2011 at Cabell Huntington Hospital after a brief illness.
I’m an old soul, so I relish old movies. Not the ones made 20 or 30 years ago, but movies made in the 1920’s, 30’s, 40’s and even up until the late 50’s.
One man's trash is another man's treasure is an age old saying that my sister, Heather, and I took to heart as children. With a stretch of the imagination, one could almost say that we were on the cutting edge of the recycling movement.
New Years Day is a great time to reflect on one’s goals for the future and do a little self-inventory.
In a world that is so busy it’s sometimes hard just to find a few moments to take for one’s self. There are so many demands on one’s time with work, errands, children, and volunteering as well as other factors that we forget to take time out for ourselves.
I had someone tell me that people come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. I hadn’t really thought about it before, but I have mulled it over and find that I agree.
What is the definition of fun? According to the dictionary, if it is used as an adjective, it means: providing enjoyment or amusement. On the other hand it can also mean cheap and gaudy- flamboyant in style and often made of low-cost synthetic materials.
I truly believe that everyone should try to do some type of community service. Not for the glory that one thinks it will bring, but for the inner satisfaction that comes with helping another person or paying a good deed forward.
Another Christmas looms around the corner and the fact that season starts earlier each year has ceased to surprise me. Whatever happened to at least getting Thanksgiving out of the way before thinking about Christmas?
