A few thoughts… About speed limits and why people ignore them
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
By some combination of luck and perseverance, I am six weeks into a 60-day drive-and-fly road trip. This is the vacation I planned to take …
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By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
By some combination of luck and perseverance, I am six weeks into a 60-day drive-and-fly road trip. This is the vacation I planned to take …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
I turned 74 last week, and I’m thinking of turning away from political commentary. I have tried for 25-plus years to get people to think …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
My last column prompted interesting letters to the editor, some of which weren’t printed because the writers didn’t wish to be in the public eye. …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Long ago, I saw (by accident) an episode of The Apprentice, and learned that Donald Trump is a bully. I never ventured there again. …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Staff
Winter has finally arrived, though the frosting on my small forest looks more like December than January. Thankfully, the frosting is much thicker on our …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Contributor
I’ve lately confessed to enjoying the writings of Loren Eiseley. If you haven’t gotten one of his books and started reading (with a dictionary handy), …
By Reader Staff
For 21 years, Blue Creek Press has published books of fiction, poetry, political commentary, travelogues, short stories and more — all steeped in a sense of the …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
When I was young, I had a book, I Have Five Pennies, in which a young boy is sent to the store by his mom …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
“Stuff” can be translated to mean many things, but this is a family newspaper, so “stuff” is what we will call stuff.
We’re all receiving …
By Sandy Compton
Reader Columnist
Fall is falling. Sunday morning, it becomes official. I will — hopefully — be in a spot that cares nothing for the arbitrary Gregorian calendar, …
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