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“With proper care, you new washing machine should last a lifetime.” The young man at Lowe’s wiggled his eyebrows and patted the appliance. At first, I dismissed his statement as

My granddaughter scraped her leg and her mother applied antiseptic cream guaranteed not...

It’s National Bathroom Reading Week. The first full week in June is set aside to...

Remember how great barefoot weather once felt Robin Garrison Leach FacebookTwitterEmail All through winter, we dreamed of the day we could go barefoot again. We wedged double-socked feet into rigid snow boots; our toes wriggled like worms on fishhooks. Scrunched together, covered with layers of protection, they grew soft and white. Tender. Then spring came. Every day after school we’d beg to go outside barefoot. “Not yet!” we’d hear. We watched the thermometer, reporting the temperature like crazed weathermen: “MOM! IT’S 70 DEGREES OUT THERE!” “The ground is still cold,” she...

Robin Writes: Cartoon crush The McDonough County Voice From the first time Popeye strode across the boards of a black and white pier, his blimpy forearms and clenched fists gyrating in piston motion, I was hooked. Popeye was a balding man. Short as a shot of whiskey and explosive as a belch. A corncob pipe hung between his lips; he chomped it tight like a grudge. He wore his sailor suit most of the time, only changing to a top hat and tails for a special night out with Olive (which got shredded in a fight every time he wore it).