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Imagine a formal White House meal. Glistening silver, glittering china, gleaming crystal. And the food! The chow there is good.

America’s crime wave is coming to your front door if it has not hit there already.

Dear Lima Beans, among the years, I have lived — and enjoyed living — in many different big cities worldwide.

“Dare we hope?”

I would like to apologize to the girls who accompanied me to homecoming dances in high school.

I’m a lucky American.

We don’t often talk politics in front of the grands because it’s just all too terribly depressing. For us. We’re not that concerned about them. They’re young and may live long enough to see the nation rally.

Had I been able to foretell my future back in the late 1950s and early ‘60s during my St. Charles Redwing days, there’s much that I would have had a hard time believing, not the least of which was that I would spend over 30 years teaching students who behaved a whole lot better than I ever did for the first several years of my schooling. I also would have been incredulous that school calendars would modify so drastically that the first day of a new school year would be weeks before the Tuesday after Labor Day.

As the accolades overflowed from current and former NBA players when Boston Celtics great Bill Russell passed away peacefully on July 31, one of the unique attributes of his legacy that stands out is that he never craved attention or being in the spotlight.

A majority of the farm leases for crop production in Ohio are still verbal (non-written) leases that are recognized as being “year-to-year.” In other words, the landlord or tenant can terminate the existing verbal lease each year.