Grandma doesn’t live around the corner anymore

We spent last weekend in New Orleans where I attended a conference of fellow newspaper columnists, and Deb and I marked another anniversary still thinking that was a good idea we had seven years ago.
We enjoyed beignets and café au lait at the mandatory 24-hour tourist magnet called Café du Monde. A guitar player on [...]

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Where have all the people gone?

The county seat is getting four more traffic lights. The word is they will make traffic flow more smoothly through the borough. That remains to be seen.
I timed a couple of lights in Gettysburg. Yellow was on three seconds. I noticed that if I were driving the 25 mph speed limit and saw the light [...]

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Mr. Dell, meet Mr. Nystrom

The computer monitor after which I had lusted arrived in good time and works very well. It will be a wonderful tool as I work with one of my hobbies — photography. As with all my purchases from Dell over the years, and those others have made for which I have been responsible. I have [...]

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Where are the buses?

Another set of traffic lights are about to be installed at Hanover and Sixth streets, on the eastern edge of Gettysburg.
New traffic signals also are planned for Carlisle Street and West Middle Street.
Rural is a state of mind difficult to maintain when you’re sitting at traffic light after traffic light, burning gasoline that could easily [...]

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