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A Town for the Ageless Just when I was so disillusioned—thinking that our younger and older generations were never going to connect, I was inspired....

Market Crosswinds Stocks shocked the world with a record 1,175-point drop in the hallowed Dow Jones Industrial Average. They then thrashed around for a while...

Searching For Perspective The Dow Industrial Average began the week by dropping 1,175 points in a single day that financial media labeled a “market meltdown.”...

With Wandering Awe One of the pleasures of “Finding Meaning” is I can attend local churches to my heart’s content. I find their services as...

What’s The Rush? Have you ever made a major purchase in a hurry and gotten a good deal? That is a hard thing to do....

Slip and Slide When I was a kid I asked my mother what she thought when I was born. She replied, “You looked like a...

Read the Personals ACTIVE, 93-YEAR-OLD LADY has an extra ticket to the Pat Boone concert on Valentine’s night. You can score a chance to escort me...

The War on Rooftops What is it about roof decks that has our town spun out? We hear all the time how they are ruining...

Simple Truths  How is it possible to keep our equilibrium when negative news abounds with messages of turmoil and chaos? Our days are filled with more...

Paper, Please Those of us lined up at 7 a.m., eagerly waiting to vote at our local precinct last November, were told that the voting...

Year of the Grim Reaper 2017 was not a good year for me.   My sister Kathy, after years of illness, passed. Two months before that,...

Holy Smokes A flood of memories came back to me while reading the Indy’s police blotter. There were lots of traffic stops. Yep, done that....

Read the Personals   LET’S GO – Mardi Gras in N’awlins interest you?  Seniors sign-up for trip of a lifetime.  We have charter flight, bus service,...

How Long Can Coast Inn Coast? My brother-in-law lives in Kansas. We usually don’t have a lot in common. It’s like he’s a Klingon and...

Moderating an Overreach The day after the Coast Inn hearing last week at the City Council here was this surprise email from one of the...