| Written by John Stark | | Friday, February 10 2012 | | The Flying Circus was rail down and running hard towards the U.S. as the sun disappeared below the horizon. Another 24 hours should put them safely inside the U. S. intercostals waterway. Dave was at the helm when his dad came topside and checked their heading, but no words were spoken—none were needed. Besides the amazing sunrises and sunsets, Caribbean night sails can be scary, but they're always enchanting. As the hull passed through the tropical sea, it stirred up phosphorous plankton and cr ... Read more... | | Written by Alyce Faye Bragg | | Friday, February 10 2012 | February has always seemed like a dreary month to me. Not quite winter and not yet spring, it stretches between the two like a dingy, worn-out blanket, frayed and full of holes. Winter's debris seems to collect in this month—scattered paper and trash in the ditch lines, plastic bags festooned on bare tree limbs and empty soda pop cans and bottles nestled in piles of dead leaves.
Although this winter has been almost devoid of snow, normally there are dirty piles of leftover snow in the corner of ... Read more... | | | Written by Lois Eubank | | Friday, February 10 2012 | CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILT EXHIBIT
The Sisters of the Cloth Quilting Guild will exhibit quilts from the 1930s to present in the Krull Gallery at the downtown Allen County Public Library from February 20-March 30. The Gallery will be open regular library hours.
The library exhibit coincides with Black History/African-American History Month. The quilt makers range from teenagers to ninety-young-at-hearts. African and African-American made quilts are known for th ... Read more... | | Friday, February 10 2012 | | If you didn't know what time of the year it was, or what the weather was like, you could tell simply by eaves dropping at the philosophy counter of the Mule Barn coffee shop.
"Good to see you here, Doc," said Herb Collins. "That warm water on the battery trick work for you?"
"Thanks, Herb. Yep. I tried it this morning. What's that you got there?"
"Travel thingie. You know it's more than 80 degrees in Guatemala ... right now?"
"Saw a deal on TV," Dud said. "They're water skiing in Florida. Yo ... Read more... | | | Written by Rev. Thomas “Dancing Feather” Ebbing | | Friday, February 10 2012 | As a child, I did not have a teddy bear. I had Jesus as my special friend and a heavenly host of friends. I was a puny little kid coming into this world, and one time as an infant, someone told my mother and father, "Tommy may not pull through, but you are a young couple. You can always have more children.
Somewhere within my little infant body I heard those words, and I shouted, "Look at me! Can't you see I come into this world with Christ's love and light, the same as you did? Give me your pr ... Read more... | | Written by John Stark | | Friday, January 27 2012 | | Dave was on the last leg from school to Cruz Bay. This year's football season was history, they won their championship game, but he was badly bruised and sore--his cell phone rang—it was Aura. Dave had not talked to her since he had received the unsolicited, porno pictures that came from her iPhone. Aura asked him about the weather because it was snowing in Burlington, NJ, but Dave wanted to know who sent the pictures.
"What pictures?" she asked.
"The ones I received from your iPhone last week ... Read more... | |