My New Year’s Eve celebrations usually come to an end long before midnight. I enjoy time with family members, and then spend time thinking about the year past and the year future. I have usually chosen my theme for the New Year a couple of weeks in advance, so I think about how the theme [...]

In a one-week period we experienced both an earthquake and a hurricane.  Thankfully the effects of both of these natural disasters passed us by relatively unscathed.  However, wishing on luck to avoid the inevitable is a dangerous proposition that may eventually leave us in a precarious position. This weekend I was able to travel to [...]

One of my favorite books is The Hiding Place, a true story by Corrie ten Boom.  Corrie and her sister were older single women who, along with their elderly father, helped shelter Jews from the horrific atrocities in World War II Germany.  They were eventually imprisoned and both the sister and the father died in [...]

This past Tuesday, someone placed a tiny kitten, about three weeks old, in a box and placed the box in front of a business on Riverside Drive.  They had put food and water in the box, but she was too young to be able to eat that food.   When employees arrived at work that day, [...]

Last week, we received a call from the emergency dispatch center in Danville about a turkey that had fallen from a truck while being transported a slaughterhouse.  You probably are familiar with those trucks; even people who eat meat usually do not like to look at the chickens, turkeys, or pigs that are crammed into [...]

April Hogan, the shelter manager, currently has four dogs she adopted from the shelter.  There is Opie the long-haired dachshund, Trixie the spitz, Peppy the Chihuahua, and Barney the dachshund.  All of her dogs play with each other and generally get along quite well.  They spend many days in the front office of the shelter [...]