| The Christmas Rose
By NAN BROWN
As published Dec. 16, 2009
[A note from Nan: Once again this year I decided to compose a story for the Christmas season. I hope you enjoy it.]
Megan Stewart sat at her kitchen table with her head in her hands. It was only a week [more]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
By NAN BROWN
As published Dec. 2, 2009
As I write this, it is less than a week until Thanksgiving, and our halls are being decked for Christmas already. Jack and I are ahead of schedule this year in our preparations due in no small part to the pleasant [more]
Life happens
By NAN BROWN
As published Aug. 19, 2009
It’s amazing how the twists and turns of life take you in a much different direction than the path you planned. I know life has kept me on my toes and caught me by surprise on several occasions.
We recently watched [more]
Approaching our “golden years”
By NAN BROWN
As published June 3, 2009
We had good intentions this year of actually taking a real vacation even though it was planned for just four days in Sugar Creek, Ohio. We’ve enjoyed that area in the past as it provides us an opportunity to see how [more]
As time goes by
By NAN BROWN
As published April 1, 2009
I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” How about when you’re not having fun? Does it go as fast then?
Hey, maybe that would have been a good subject of study to be funded by [more]
Eh - What did you say?
By NAN BROWN
As published March 4, 2009
We had a really weird situation at our house recently, and I believe it left all of us – that is to say, Jack, me, and our dogs Shelby, Cody and Riley - partially deaf temporarily.
Hubby and I were sitting [more]
I just don’t get it
By NAN BROWN
As published Feb. 4, 2009
Politically speaking there is so much going on lately it has my head spinning. Like millions across our nation, I got caught up in the euphoria of Inauguration Day. I didn’t vote for the man, but I did appreciate the historical [more]
Anticipation
By NAN BROWN
As published Jan. 21, 2009
I’m sure you remember how the old Carly Simon song goes – “Anticipation. An-tic-i-pa-a-tion. It’s making me wait. It’s keeping me wai-a-a-ting.” That’s how I feel these days. My better half, Jack, and I have been anticipating snow and have been [more]
The Christmas package
By NAN BROWN
As published Dec. 17, 2008
[A note from Nan: This year instead of writing about Christmases past and present in my life, I decided to try my hand at composing a story for the season. I hope you enjoy it.]
Kayla Woodward awoke with a start. [more]
Stomach of steel
By NAN BROWN
As published Dec. 3, 2008
We have a problem on our hands – our 7-year-old Jack Russell Terrorist (it’s not a typo, I do mean terrorist and not terrier) named Cody. I’ve written about his escapades before – like the time when he was two years [more]
Who’s gonna bail us out?
By NAN BROWN
As published Nov. 5, 2008
I’m going to be up front about a few things in this column which is more than I can say about the “fat cat” CEOs behind the economic debacle we’ve found ourselves in recently.
I’ll be the first to admit I [more]
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