Opinions

Body I miss the days when things were just fun and you didn’t have to worry about other countries. We’d be much better off if we could go back to when it took a few weeks for news from around the world to reach us.

Body One of my favorite stolen sayings is that “close only counts in horsehoes and hand grenades.” I’m not a real particular person - I like to think I am, but at the end of the day I’m just as lazy as the next person.

Body One might think - yeah, grab some pictures, write a few paragraphs and then slap it all together and *poof* there’s a newspaper! Why and how can it be late sometimes!? Listen, I totally hear you, I wonder the same thing all the time.

Body It seems these days that things are going faster and faster - it probably is because I’m getting a bit older and I’m not quite as quick as I used to be.

Body I have a love/hate relationship with the “looking back” editions of the News every year.

Body I really appreciate all the checking up and checking in that everyone has been doing. Until you’re sitting in a chair staring at the same part of the ceiling for a number of hours a day, you don’t really appreciate the contact that people can make that makes a huge difference.

Body There are times when one gets really busy that it’s always been a trick to just stop and take a breath and decide what the next move might be.

Body It’s been a few weeks, months…since I’ve had a chance to communicate in my usual fashion with “Babbling Brook” and I figure I’ve owed everyone an explanation. It’s been an….

Body Julie and I are in the early months of what we like to call our “retirement.” Sure, it has been a while since we hit 65, or 67, or whatever age you can start getting Social Security -- but the process of getting retired and dealing with the various programs can be complicated.

Body If you have noticed the absence of Babbling Brook recently, you are not alone. In the interest of keeping all valued readers and advertisers informed, we needed to let you know: Brook underwent some major surgery last week, relative to an internal infection.