Christmas is upon us again and the list of traditions is being lined up. I suggested to our daughter Taylor, who isn’t getting into town until Dec. 23, that maybe we forego baking this year …

Ok...so this week’s offering is going to have a bit of salt to it. Not the kind I had to sprinkle on my sidewalks after learning to fly when I slipped off the cement block steps on my west …

I’m a people watcher. I do that. I’ll always have a book or my phone in my hand while I’m doing it, but I’m a peeker. I watch people interact with one another, or sometimes …

Well, the turkey is smashed into storage plastic for leftovers, or in baggies for the freezer for turkey and noodles over potatoes. Black Friday is over for the most part, the lighted parade is past, …

Being the owner of a news outlet has its challenges. That’s never been more evident than the past election cycle. The advertising that comes with it is small recompense for the tough business …

In my life of good, bad, and really, really bad decisions, a couple things came to light this week that made me laugh as things you really shouldn’t do. These are not things that require heavy …

I was looking down at my hands while doing some typing this week and noticed something stark. They look old. Old hands. Old mind. As you can tell from the outset, I’m doing a lot of reflecting …

Getting older sucks. I know the old adage, ‘It’s better than the alternative’. Welp, yeah. But I went to a football game Friday night and it was 48 degrees out. That’s not …

Visiting Taylor in New York City for a spell. I made the snap decision to go because I’m getting cabin fever and, quite frankly, exhausted with the coming election, workloads, losing weight, …

Welp… It’s that time of year. The time of year when the readership of Pen City Current gets to be my unwitting therapist. I was scrolling through Facebook to make sure our most recent …

When I played Little League baseball on the dirt fields where West Burlington’s softball field sits now, I wore No. 14 Every single summer I insisted on it. When you stayed in the same league …