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Bags of Horehound candy and golden butterscotch discs.
I occasionally drive down one particular street in Hillsboro, Oregon. To my right is a house with six American flags in an otherwise tastefully landscaped front yard. My use of “otherwise” implies I think the six flags are excessive; one would do just fine.
No fair peeking at the answers before you take the quiz.
Here's our special version of the annual Spin Control July 4th Trivia Quiz. Instead of 13 questions, one for each colony, we’ve got offering 50 questions, one for each state.
In old age, a person is likely to die of CHAPS.
Last week, as a guest preacher, I explored “The Bible’s Power Transformed by Myths.” But first, I tried to reframe some truths and lies about mythology.
The state GOP was divided in 1976 but Reagan supporters had the upper hand.
We’re more than halfway through June, or as I call it, the month of Derek. With his birthday falling in the first week of June and Father’s Day shortly thereafter, we just celebrate him all month long.
I have never been an “exercise-for-the-sake-of-exercise” person. I don’t really like it. But I was an athlete, back in the day. I played basketball, track, ran cross country and I worked out in the fire department gym.
The Treasury Department is planning for a possible $250 bill, which seems a bit strange. But speaking of strange, there was the fake $22 bill of a wouldbe presidential candidate.
When our youngest son moved to Texas almost four years ago, we didn’t fall into the empty-nester stereotype and convert his room into a home gym.
We wanted our son to understand, from the beginning, that he is not the center of the world – he is part of it. That he is a steward, not an owner. We took him to Kamiak Butte to say so out loud.
Cost of filing initiative proposals is way up, but that hasn't stopped opponents of the proposed Millionaire's Tax from filing plans to scrap it.
It is a gift to writers everywhere when something we’ve written generates a response that unexpectedly ties a local story to something national, and even more so when it offers the opportunity to showcase someone from our neck of the woods, someone connected to something important that happened in a much larger arena.
Editor’s note: This is one of Graves’ occasional letters to his grandchildren.
After the killing of three people at a San Diego mosque last week, documents allegedly written by the two suspected shooters who later took their own lives were described as “a manifesto.”
On Mother’s Day, Mom and I had a lovely chat.
I have been moving about lately using a walker. It’s temporary, I hope, but it is very much an asset for now. And, I must say, my view of the world from behind the little wheeled device has changed considerably.
