Archeologists can learn a lot about our ancestors by going through their garbage.
Those treasure troves, called midden piles, can tell us what people ate, what kind of dishware they used, even w…
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID changing our lives in almost every way possible, we could focus on the negative.
We have all lost something in the last 12 months. Some have lost…
Between my current job and my former one, I have sat within a few feet of a police scanner for almost 25 years.
It has been my background music, until a call comes in that requires our attention…
Growing up in what was then a small town in Illinois, I had a dog and a pony, both of which routinely ran away.
I also had a cat who ran to us, transforming herself from an unwanted stray to a m…
I’m not sure how I survived growing up in Illinois, why I thought it was fun to strap on shoes with blades on them and stumble across a frozen river.
I waited for the bus in sub-freezing temperat…
In the four months since I’ve been editor of the Navarre Press, Santa Rosa County and I have been courting each other. As a 20-plus year resident of Okaloosa and an occasional visitor to Santa Rosa…
You never know what you’ll find during a walk on the beach.
Sand dollars, seashells, driftwood or debris. You might spot a sea turtle trolling along parallel to shore or have to dodge a shore fis…
When my dad died nearly 20 years ago, it fell to my brother and I to clean out the house we grew up in and that our parents had shared for half of a century.
If there is a definition of hoarder…
No such thing as a perfect parent
I grew up in the age of Hallmark movies and television shows that depicted fathers patting sons on the head and multiple generations of families living peaceably…
