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We have definitely entered an interesting time in American culture. Author Elizabeth Gilbert, of Eat, Pray, Love fame, recently decided not to publish her upcoming novel because it was set in Russia. She stated in a video that she knew having Russian protagonists would be too hurtful for Ukrainian people because of the ongoing war.

The bird’s name was Perry Como. He belonged to a little red-headed girl in Central Florida who loved him dearly. When she was eight years old, however, he flew the coop.

I heard him yelling before I saw him.

One of the great musicals, Fiddler on the Roof, opened on Broadway in 1964 and ran until 1972. It had plenty to say and sing about the value of tradition, knowing it and keeping it.

When the Lottie Moon Offering was taken each year at our church, my father stood behind the back pew in our large sanctuary, which accommodated more than 200 people, while various women’s circles and youth organizations voiced their individual totals in an orderly process.

It’s time to be thinking about Father’s Day -- even if all we do is think about it. The woman who suggested Father’s Day in 1909 was named Sonora Smart Dodd.

When I wore a younger man’s clothes, Billy Joel’s reference in Piano Man to when he was young, science was a wide and wonderful world.

Since my vast realm of work responsibilities includes reading most of the words that appear within a newspaper twice a week, I admit that I face some words with more enthusiasm than others. But it was on the sports page, of all things, that I found an interesting little article about snook.

“They put in a new sidewalk,” my neighbor said, “and the first thing that happened was, a cat walked across the cement and left little footprints!”