Month: June 2001

My daughter and I went to St. Louis recently to help my youngest son and his fiancee with their wedding plans. The bride-elect had arranged cake tasting appointments at a couple bakeries, visits to tuxedo shops and a stop to look at wedding invitations. Interested, but feeling a bit unnecessary, we tagged along. At the…

First Place APME As a baby boomer I was born into a home with a lot of common sense and matured into a world of changing morals and mores. As a child smoking was socially acceptable: businesses and schools provided smoking lounge, magazines published cigarette ads, television shows with stars who smoke were sponsored by…

(Note I received the following thoughts on writing checks from my son’s wife, Alexis Hershberger, recently. I am passing along an edited version to you. She shops in the big, busy city of New Orleans.) Not so many years ago, cash was the accepted method of payment at the grocery store. Checks were the ultimate…

Earlier this year, my son broached an idea to me: “Left alone, any child will learn everything and anything; all that we have to do is provide pathways to learning.” If only it worked that way. Left to their own devices, children certainly do not learn manners, not even the simple courtesy of saying thanks.…