3 ways to take charge of your health this Heart Month
More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States each year. This February, during American Heart Month, the American Heart Association is...
The Point of It All? Enlightenment, or at Least Calm
When we talk about the future, the focus usually lands on numbers: savings targets, performance reports, next steps. Those matter, of course, but they...
What’s Cookin’
So I am putting together my piece on the meeting of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville, when all sorts of related topics and...
Why Most Health Changes Don’t Stick
We all know how this goes. This is the year you’re finally going to stick with it. You jump all in. You decide this is...
Avoiding Common Furnace Issues
Provided By DeBord’s One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning Taking care of your furnace is especially important over the winter season when your unit is...
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Well, here we are again. We definitely DO NOT need Greenland. We’ve already got the weather and claiming anything else would be a pile of...
The Most Honest Prediction for 2026
If it feels like every week brings a new plot twist—geopolitical shifts, emerging tech, policy changes, breaking news—you’re not imagining it. The world’s moving...
Beat exercise boredom
Exercise is essential for good health. But it can be challenging to find the motivation to get moving. It is easy to cite a...
Don’t Just Think. Do.
January brings twelve fresh months and a quiet challenge to make them count. And though many resolutions this time of year focus on getting...
Signs and Portents
Christmas trees abandoned on the “devil strip”. Wrappings and tinsel in the weekly trash pick-ups. Peppermint and/or chocolate overload. But the surest sign that...
Finish 2025 Strong, Step Powerfully Into 2026
Every year leaves a trail of numbers behind—evidence of choices, effort, and focus. Each contribution, payment, and investment of your resources becomes part of...
Welcome To Nuuk
What? You didn’t know that Nuuk is the principal settlement in Greenland,( a province of Denmark in the Western hemisphere)? Have you happened to...
Why Does My Water Taste Bad Even Though It Looks Clear?
Water seems like an incredibly simple thing, right? Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom combine to create the most essential element in the...
The Good You Give Away Has a Way of Coming Back
Some gifts don’t come wrapped. They arrive when you surprise a neighbor with food, check in on a friend, or give without expecting anything...
Sing We Now of Christmas
The songs will rise on December 21 at three o’clock in the Garrettsville United Methodist Church, set on the air by the Chancel Choir,...
A Season for Reflection — and Renewed Perspective
As the days grow shorter and air turns colder, many of us find ourselves slowing down before the full rush of the holidays begins....
How Now, Brown Cow
Countryside Veterinary Services keeping you in good health? Well, yes, but dogs and cats are getting even more premium care at the Garrettsville outpost since...
Things That Should Never Go Down Your Drain
Presented By Benjamin Franklin Plumbing The HOLIDAYS are here and many of us are spending time in our kitchens preparing tasty meals and treats for...
Getting What You Really Want This Holiday Season
With holiday season ahead of us, thoughts turn to giving —or getting—that perfect gift. The one that earns a big smile or a spark...
Holiday Howlers
No. I am not communicating with owls, just miscellaneous rants for the season. I have been saving up a number of “pet peeves” to...
Hands-On Birding
Attempt to hold some seed, then a hungry Black-capped Chickadee! The cold weather is back — and so is Bird in the Hand! From now...
Is it time for strategic hibernation?
Please pass the pumpkin pie—and that paperwork you’ve been putting off. Thanksgiving is about good food, friends, family, and gratitude. But it’s also a rare...
Salt of The Earth?
Visited the Himalayas lately? Lost tons (!) of weight? Paid ANY attention to the latest in food(!) fads online? Got the recipe? A person can hardly open...
Is it time for strategic hibernation?
Now that the air’s turning crisp and the days feel shorter, it’s clear that nature has its own way of reminding us to slow...
(OFA) Old Farmers’ Almanac
The Daylight Savings Time switchover has not often been so noticeable …for me anyway. Probably because of the looooong autumn (bordering on summer, really),...
(OFA) Old Farmers’ Almanac
Done with All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, done with Election Day, done with the Full Beaver Moon (Didn’t see them out celebrating), daylight...
Changing The Way You Think
With the recent time change, many of us have been resetting clocks and routines for the season ahead. It’s a good reminder that even...
Candy, And Then Some
Gotta get me a clicker/counter gadget so that I can have an accurate reckoning of how many trick-or-treaters that show up at my porch....
You’ve Got More Capacity Than You Think
As fall settles in, many of us turn our attention to seasonal routines—clearing the yard, checking the gutters, bringing in the plants before the...
