A Column by John Estridge I have always kind of bungled my way into professions or better said, phases, of my life. When I was 19 and seeing the country during the nation’s Bicentennial in 1976, I found myself in Colorado Springs with two dimes and three Mountain Dew bottles to my name. A friend …
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Bring an heirloom for show-and-tell at Senior Reminisce
A Column by Donna Jobe Cronk LIBERTY — Hoosier author and Union County native Donna Cronk is the guest speaker at the next senior Reminisce program-luncheon at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Union County Public Library. A meal will follow the program at noon. Reservations are needed by Tuesday, Nov. 15, by …
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Untying the Gordian Knot, solving the question of life would be simpler than making ribs
A Column by John Estridge Back in the day when my ex was not my ex, and she was going to college to be a nurse, I found myself as the family’s cook. Up to that time, the last time I had cooked anything was when I was a pizza twirler in Colorado. About 20 …
Going for Queen at the Union County Fair — 1976 style
Column by Donna Jobe Cronk I don’t know how it is in other counties, but in the second smallest one in Indiana, Union, the 4-H fair queen pageant was a big deal in my growing-up years. Many little girls dreamed of wearing the crown–then spending a week in a showring distributing ribbons to those who showed …
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Can prune juice be far behind?
A column by Donna Jobe Cronk When I was a little girl, it seemed that the old people’s favorite topic was prune juice. I found prune juice disgusting, and prunes equally so. I even violated a Dunlapsville School rule in first grade about wasting food. It may have been only a rumored rule, …
How administering a COVID/Covid test is like finding antifreeze’s freezing point in 1977
A Column by John Estridge My Long Suffering Wife Ruth asked me to give her a second blanket the other night as we were sitting and watching a baseball game on TV. Ruth wouldn’t be cold if she sat in a freezer for 30 minutes. But, since I don’t like talking to divorce attorneys, I …
My grandma Stella and an old child’s game
A Column by John Estridge Donna Jobe Cronk came to the Brookville Library recently and gave a presentation. Donna writes columns I publish on the blog and is a very talented writer. I love her columns, and she has published three books. I like her books although they are a little feminine for me. I …
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Always look for helpers — and be one yourself
A Column by Donna Cronk With it now common for folks to pay with plastic instead of cash, I knew with my new book, I needed to invest in a credit-and-debit-card reader. But what may seem an ordinary task to others threw me into a tailspin. I decided to get one through my bank; to …
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Me and plastic bags: a column
A Column by John Estridge There are many ways I embarrass my Long Suffering Wife Ruth, but one of the worst for her is my inability to open those plastic sleeve-like bags in the vegetable and fruit area of a grocery store. And I know I have spoken about this ad nauseum in my columns, …
I had a title for this, but I FORGOT!!!! it
A Column by John Estridge Hopefully, I don’t FORGET!!! to post this. My biological daughters and I have been doing Wordle. It is an online thing started – as many things people do today – during COVID. Some guy made millions off it and then sold it to the New York Times and made many …
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