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Kent Bernhardt: What’s with all the squirrels?
By Kent Bernhardt Is it me, or is Salisbury just infested with squirrels lately? Maybe I just never ...
By Kent Bernhardt Is it me, or is Salisbury just infested with squirrels lately? Maybe I just never ...
We’re 68. Well … I am. Though he is a few months younger than me, David knows enough ...
With the coming of the Summer Solstice being now some weeks away, I thought back to how this ...
By Kent Bernhardt I’m not cool. It’s a reality that I’m comfortable with because the truth is I ...
Pulling the boiling water pot off the burner, my 5-year-old and I mixed sugar until it dissolved, creating ...
Before I leave the house Sunday morning, I will add an extra accessory to my dress — a ...
By Mike Wilson I am no Nancy Kerrigan, by which I do not mean to suggest that I ...
If you ever make a Christian pilgrimage to Israel, be sure to visit the Church of the Primacy ...
By Lynna Clark What could he do? It came down to a couple different options. He could break ...
The other day I was driving around when I suddenly saw something different; actually, it was something different ...
I have two sisters who are twins. Not with me, with each other. Otherwise I guess we’d be ...
By Mike Wilson Christian Sorenson Bennett, one year my senior, was my favorite boyhood cousin. He was ...
By Mike Wilson In light of the most recent round of border disturbances, Mexico no longer calls to ...
“Hey man! Don’t be takin’ my donkey!” That’s what I would’ve said if a couple of strangers came ...
By Mike Wilson I was once told that I was named Michael after my mother’s favorite great uncle ...
Two slices of bread with a mix of creamy peanut butter stirred with globs of grape jelly smeared ...
With Ash Wednesday not far in the past, Palm Sunday surely is just around the corner. My church’s ...
By Lynna Clark I’m kind of clumsy when it comes to social graces. Like Don Rickles on the ...
One recent day, I visited a life-long friend of my late wife Diane (and almost life-long friend of ...
We have three grown daughters scattered about making their little corners of the world better. During a recent ...
We used to have the best doctor. When David’s A1C registered high, she gave him a plan to ...
I killed my first duck, a hen mallard, while lying on my belly in soupy mud under buckbushes ...
Don’t you love seeing daffodils this time of year? Around our house they seem to be popping up ...
Some time ago, while walking the trail in a local park, a late-falling acorn hit the top of ...
By Lynna Clark Did you ever have the pleasure of meeting my mom-in-law Nina? She was feisty, funny ...
By Mike Wilson When my wife and I decided to dock our powerboat at Lake Norman, I was ...
On a rare day of sunshine in early February, my beloved and I enjoyed time on the back ...
It seems that reminders of how fallen our world is are being thrust upon us with increasing regularity. ...