It’s really hard to think of and write about light, humorous circumstances when a nasty cold bug has set up residence in your head. I’m calling this bug Courtney’s Crud because Your TIMES reporter...
Pets prove ‘Who owns whom?’
Our precious pets popped some surprises at us last week. But don’t they always? My pups — Penny and Pepper — pulled old and new punches. Your TIMES photographer Linda C. also has two — Rags and ...
Vehicle vengeance
Never cared much for Stephen King’s novel “Christine.” Cars killing people is too far out for me. But then some of our vehicles turned upon us this week, and now I’m not so sure King was wrong. Th...
Dogs may dictate life, but offer special moments We had a coincidental encounter last week at a local restaurant. One of the employees came to our table and asked who wrote about the dogs Pepper and Penny. I glanced at Linda Copeland, Your TIME...
To exercise, or not — that is the question Did somebody make a New Year’s resolution or something? We ask that only because suddenly everyone’s complaining of sore muscles. We wonder what might cause that? Could it be a New Year’s resoluti...
See Sally panic! See Sally panic! Those of you of a certain age will remember our Dick, Jane and Sally readers. (No. I’m not saying what age!) But all of us who were in elementary school way back in the 19…s, Oops...
The layer battle is on due to deep freeze
This is not the annual winter rant. After all, we are not even through the first month of winter, and I want to save my rant just in case something worse comes along. It’s been known to happen her...
Many life lessons were learned during this Christmas season. One such lesson emblazoned in my brain, literally, is that when the smell of burning cat hair fills the home, overpowering even the mos...
The New Year — 2010 — draws near. That’s hard to believe. It was many, many, many years ago, I remember thinking I must surely die before the age of 30, because getting old must surely be bad and ...
The happy day is near — finally — and it has come to our attention that some strange goings-on have occurred in connection with Christmas this year. And these strange occurrences have nothing to d...
Christmas decorating…frankly it’s beyond me. Oh no, don’t take that wrong. I love Christmas decorations. I love them so much — the color, the lights everywhere, the embodiment of joy at the darkes...
Nothing is so discouraging as a vehicle that won’t start, or, if it does start, won’t go. I know that from experience. My own vehicle pulled both tricks this fall. “Dead battery,” was the first d...
What to talk about after all the turkey, the trimmings and the traditional football? Christmas of course! For the record, I did not initiate this discussion — otherwise known as “How I Spied on t...