"Spare the rod, spoil the child."For a time, I took that cliche as gospel. I had been spanked and swatted as a child. In the 1940s and 1950s, those punishments were commonplace. I was hit. My friends were hit. We survived, and thrived.The punishments worked. I refrained from quite a few actions ...

POLAND - In the shifting sands of time, Ron Brake remembers the legacy of a tiny school house that once resided in the town of Poland.Brake is a bit of a local historian, and said he was thrilled to share the information he had on the Fargo School House No. 9 that once stood at 3751 Sprague ...

"These are days, you'll remember,Never before and never since, I promiseWill the whole world be warm as this and as you feel it.You'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky.It's true that you are touched by something,That will grow and bloom in you."- "These Are The Days" By 10,000 ...

Growing up where I did, there were neighborhood relationships that developed as many families lived in only one house for most of their life, without moving, and lived there for many years, so our parents became good friends with the neighbors, and we kids grew up and became friends as well. I ...

It seems that I have lost more things in the car I have now than I have ever lost before. I guess you could question if some of the things were actually lost. Maybe some of it relates to my age. I am just not sure what is going on.My granddaughter and I attended a craft show where I sold my ...

Displaying an agreeability I always knew she had to have, Gloria comes to sit beside me on my kneeling (let's call it what it is: my SITTING) pad, pleasing me even further as she retains a pleasant silence, leaving me to stew in my thoughts as I weed. She has no objection to my scrunching the ...