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While "making memories" is often a good thing, there are plenty of bad ones that we keep and store in our minds.

I found the whole scene remarkable for the way the young man’s knitting instantly broke down every perceivable barrier.

The place was overrun by pollinators. There were monarchs and honeybees, bumblebees and wasps, skippers and swallowtails, hummingbirds and hoverflies.

Gardening is one of those activities that the more experienced folks make look easy but that in reality only gets easier with time.

I regret to admit there was no joy for me in breaking beans.

When the wind is blowing and you wonder if it will ever stop, remind yourself that it may blow for a season but there’s never been a time when it didn’t also stop.

In the end, family is worth fighting for, worth defending, and worth doing all we can to figure it out as we expand and change.

The hazards of heading out in the dead of winter are many. But he doesn’t care. He divines the hour by some vestibular canine clockwork.

Cyn Kitchen says rejection is part of the process in the world of writing as much as in the world of life itself.

Black Voices series wins five awards in state newspaper contest Galesburg Register-Mail SPRINGFIELD — The Register-Mail earned five different Illinois Press Association awards for its Black Voices series in 2020. The winners in the annual newspaper contest were announced Thursday. The Register-Mail earned 16 awards, with three of those being first place awards. The newspaper competes against small daily newspapers statewide. The Black Voices series, a 10-part series providing in-depth intervi...