Columns

No, I don’t mean the Bible, although I read it every day.
But for now, I’m referring to the newspaper.
“Ahh, the newspaper,” you say. “You mean that old dinosaur of the printed era that’s somehow managed to stay alive, despite its shrinking advertising revenue and a dwindling subscriber base?”
Despite rumors of its demise, the newspaper is surviving and in some instances, thriving.

“It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peters
 
Keeping the family laundry up is a monumental task these days.  People didn’t have as many clothes or wash them as often when I was born.  Those were also the days when some people still used coal heating and no one had air conditioning.
Yep, we probably had quite an odor about us, but no one noticed it.
Don’t look down your modern nose at us older people, you youngsters.

Sometimes we print stories about health-related issues and how the county ranks among the rest of the state when it comes to healthy lifestyles. 

While I agree that most of us need to make exercise and eating right more of a priority, I can’t say I’ve been leading by example. 

My diet often consists of fast food or meals prepared in a restaurant. I have the luxury of gracious in-laws and parents that still invite my family and me over for frequent meals, but my daily consumption is not usually healthy. 

By now you’ve heard the news: We’re growing, at least physically. The average American male is 17 pounds heavier and the average female 19 pounds heavier than in the late 1970s. And the percentage of overweight children and adolescents in the U.S. has nearly tripled in that same period of time.

One of the most overlooked and effective ways to fight our growing weight problem is to grow a vegetable garden.