Month: September 2004

Good health is bad for the bakery business. The headlines on the business section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette testified to that reality Thursday with the announcement that the makers of Wonder Bread, Twinkies – and a few other brands such as Home Pride, Sunbeam and Dolly Madison products – had to file for Chapter 11…

I could not help but notice both women. Everywhere I look clothes are shrinking in fit and coverage. Some wearing the look command my attention as did the two women who strolled into the suburban church wearing form fitting, fashionable, strapless, sundresses. Most however resemble either overgrown toddlers with bare, bulging milk bellies or unsophisticated…

It was near midnight when I took the final stitch to attach the button accenting the dress I was making for my granddaughter and held up the crisp new dress and smiled proudly. I hung it up beside the dresses I had stayed up late for several days to make for her sisters and stood…

Who needs alarm clocks, doorbells or massage therapy when they have cats? Cats have a mind of their own about everything – including time. If they decide it is time to be petted, to be let out, to be given attention by those two-legged creatures in their turf, that is all that matters. The cat…