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Kiki’s Corner: Preparing for upcoming events

Last week, I wrote all about Valentine’s Day. I hope you ate a few good, fattening sweets to satisfy your palate, and hopefully you didn’t weigh yourself the next morning. When I eat something fattening, I don’t step on my old or new scales for two or three days, and you know why? ...

Cracking the Code: Back from Istanbul, the work starts

It is two weeks since we returned from Turkey. (In 2022 it became the Republic of Turkiye.) The first week back started slow with us adjusting to the 8-hour time change. Monday morning the first day back, Lynnda and I faced reality when we saw more seriously overweight people that morning here ...

MOV Parent: Things to say – and avoid saying – to your kids

I told you before, I only write on the Parent page once a month, and it seems like the days fly by so fast. As we all know, children are so important in our lives. When a couple is united in marriage, what is the first priority on their agenda? To have a little baby. And some have one, two or ...

The Way I See It: Rosenthal captured the decisive moment of a generation

If you are a photographer, you always strive to capture the decisive moment. The one moment at an event that captures the essence of the story, wrapping up for all time that one sliver of time that tells the whole story. Still photography has a way of doing that. Getting the decisive ...

Life Through the Lens: Art made and inspired by women

“But, sometimes, bad stuff just happens.” *** In the not-too-distant-future of 2091, life persists. It waivers … but it persists. Despite the steady decline of the environment, the ever-roiling dysfunction of human politics, the tug of war of control, huMANity has dug his heels in and, ...

Look Back: A journey on the Little Kanawha

Creston, calliopes and dishes This item appeared several years ago in H&P, newsletter of the historical society. Does the title seem like a strange combination? Certainly not! At least not in the early 1920s. In fact, for those who lived along the Little Kanawha River, all were quite common ...