The flies were swarming. On the outside of the screens. Stuck in the screens. Some even squeezed through holes in the screens and now were dive bombing us in the house. In the summer, Tidewater Virginia is ground zero for the mosquito and fly invasion.
Since I was a 2019 Royal Palm Literary Award winner, I was asked to judge this year’s competition. Woot woot! So much fun! But a lot of work as well. There’s a lot that goes into fairly judging a writing comp. I won’t go into detail to save you from a snore-fest.
Imagine your neighbor knocks on your front door. “Can you spare a dime? It will help save the life of one person. If we all chip in, it won’t cost much.”
We want to believe Republicans and Democrats are working hard up in D.C. to find the next set of solutions to this crisis.
Small business employs 60 million Americans. That’s five times as many jobs as our manufacturing sector; four times as big as the healthcare industry; more than two times bigger than all the Federal, state and local employees combined. Put a different way, small business employs about half o…
This past week could’ve risen out of a Ray Bradbury novel, so dystopian in nature with contagions, closures and curfews. But it wasn’t ripped from the pages of Something Wicked This Way Come or Fahrenheit 451.
Raymond “Ray” Ordell Halverson (1934-2020) went home to be with the Lord on Jan. 22, 2020 at the age of 85 after a short but rough battle with cancer. The funeral service will be held at Trinity Evangelical Free Church, 890 Abrams Road, Eustis, Florida at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28. It will al…
