Month: January 2013

Abby Johnson knew all the catch words and phrases of Planned Parenthood: choice, fetus, mass of tissues and procedure. As director of a clinic for eight years she has used them frequently when she counseled women and occasionally assisted during the abortion procedures within top clinics such as the Ava Health in Portland. Every other Saturday…

By Joan Hershberger jhershberger@eldoradonews.com Inexpensive, natural and full of fiber, popcorn provides a healthy, quick snack. In honor of National Popcorn Day this Friday, consider the following recipes for variations of stove top popped popcorn from the Joseph Hershberger household. Popcorn became the family snack food during the years that their sons, Randy, Tim and…

Our appliances went on strike this past year. First, the oven refused to work regularly … said it had had enough already with baking an onslaught of desserts, casseroles and skillets of cornbread. It would not do the job any longer. We took away its major heating element and replaced it with a more cooperative…

We had barely put down our suitcases for the holiday family gathering at the resort when we had a tempest in our little teapot of a three-year-old. “I want to be four,” Caroline pouted. “You will be four in April,” we assured her. But she wanted to be four now, just like her cousins –…

Today is The Day. The big one. The day the El Dorado News-Times publishes my 1,000th column. That is 1,000 columns relating my family’s activities, history and oddities as well as my personal thoughts on people who have inspired me spiritually, socially and emotionally; a few passing thoughts on the headline news of the day…

With three preschool-aged children in the van, the trip home from St. Louis with my daughter took much longer than it did when I traveled with just my husband. We had plenty of bathroom stops, breaks to eat, and time to just get out of the car and stretch those wiggly little legs after miles…