Editorials
“If it wasn’t for bad luck...”
My world always seems to be in a mess, although I can thankfully say that nothing terrible has happened and that I have not experienced a life threatening injury or sickness. Still, little things ...
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Decidedly unscientific ways to beat the heat
It has become a really unpleasant struggle to walk from the air-conditioned house to the air-conditioned car and then have to get out again to enter my air-conditioned office. I mean, isn’t life c...
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Me and others at work aboard the 39.5 ft long Tippecanoe. My priorities were right, too busy sailing to be writing
I have been asked several times lately, “Where is your column?” I had one lady track me down at my brother’s house. My brother was out of town in San Diego, California and I was sitting over at his...
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Sitting and waiting for your hard work to pay off for me
Is it tomato weather yet? My unabashed pleas for fresh produce have so far gone unheeded. I wait impatiently for that first anonymous sack of real tomatoes to appear on mnyfront porch, because not...
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"Scripsit" No marigolds in the Promised Land, sings cynical Steely Dan
Unfortunately, I have been listening to the news, and now I am deeply depressed. The oil spill. The volcanoes in Central and South America and Iceland and Indonesia and the Philippines and so many...
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Ha! I’m surely smarter than a minnow, aren’t I? Well...
I can tell you that something strange is going on in the murky waters of Jones Lake State Park. There is no Loch Ness Monster, and there are no adult fish. If there were, I would have caught at le...
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Immigration, a new old problem for the USA
by Eddie Ayers, 'Ayering it Out, Again'
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From the very beginning, this side of the world has been populated by immigrants from somewhere. But I guess if you go back far enough, we all migrated out of Africa. Some historians postulate th...
A bad day fishing is still better than a good day at work, right?
by Paul Terry, Editor, "Scriptsit"
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I should have been at the hospital visiting my family members in there, but I played hooky. I needed to, I was exhausted by the Festival and the Night Out and everything associated with my job. So...
A still vivid, unforgettable memory of a sinking “stink pot”
by Eddie Ayers, 'Ayering it Out, Again'
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Sometime in the late 1700’s steam powered boats were first produced and they immediately started threatening the future of sailing. Throughout history, sailing has been instrumental in the developm...
An update, and a self reminder as to why I live and love here
by Paul Terry, Editor, "Scriptsit"
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It turns out that the old saying “We don’t know what to expect from minute to minute” is absolutely true. It also turns out that another old saying “Prayer Works!” is also absolutely true. Becaus...
Local politics and the great American right to vote
by Eddie Ayers, 'Ayering it Out, Again'
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It is that time again, the time that comes every two years. Yes, it’s time to vote, when our basic political process begins all over again. Time again to throw out the not so good county representa...
"Scripsit" Times come and go; some things change with cycles of life
by Paul Terry, Editor, "Scriptsit"
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It’s all about time. It is now the last week of April, meaning that one third of the year has already passed! I can’t believe it, but each week I record the week’s edition of this paper (on page ...
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