I REACHED EIGHTY!
I REACHED EIGHTY! By Jean Steel Venrick (Mrs. Wordwright) JEAN, on the left, with pen and notebook, doing what she excels in, researching HISTORY. This picture was taken ...
Essays
TODAY’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
TODAY’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS compared with the Great Depression Perception is a relative thing – at least that is one of my opinions. Way back in January of 1970 a ...
THE UNAPPRECIATED CHRISTMAS GIFT
JUST ABOUT this time last year we ran this article and we believe it can stand “one more time” at this time of the year. I have added a ...
WORDS — WHAT DID HE SAY?
Words “make the world go around”. Words make or lose the sale; more than one young salesman began to lose a sale when he talked too long. “A word fitly ...
We’ve come a long, long way, since 1944
T. J. Ray, retired English professor at ‘Ole Miss, looks back a few decades… In the summer of 1944 our neighbor in the government housing project had saved enough gasoline ...
NEVER AGAIN…
Photo by Judy Boyman,”Red Ranger Came Calling” See: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1412 NEVER AGAIN will this bicycle thrill its owner by racing around or just “ridin’ around” like boys do. Someone evidently parked ...
A READER WRITES FROM CHICAGO
It is hard for this writer to imagine any writer who could care less if anyone responds to what a writer publishes. My tutoring for such a theory comes from ...
HUMANS and ANIMALS
. Photo Credit: Copyright – Leonard Lee Rue III from National Audubon Society Henry Ward Beecher put it this way: “If men wore wings and bore black feathers, few of ...
MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, THE TEACHER
My Great-grandfather, John Reverdy Keadle, was born in Stockport, Ohio, in 1854. Unfortunately not a lot of details exist detailing his young adult life but what we do know is ...
WE’VE BEEN FASTING TV
Some time back I read in a fellow writer’s laments that he thought we should all “take a fast” from the television and media dousing that creates stress in our ...