Tickets for the upcoming play “The Ave.” will be available July 15 at www.maplevalleyarts.com.
I’ve gotten to the age at which I spend a lot of time remembering, and it’s the fragments that seem to affect me the most, fleeting glimpses into the past that leave me still reaching for something I can’t quite grasp. Here Roy Scheele, a fine Nebraska poet, perfectly captures one of those passing memories.
The band Sealth with Dace Anderson performed at the Maple Valley Farmers Market Saturday.
There will be an open mic at the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center Saturday July 9 at 7:00 p.m.
I don’t often mention literary forms, but of this lovely poem by Cecilia Woloch I want to suggest that the form, a villanelle, which uses a pattern of repetition, adds to the enchantment I feel in reading it. It has a kind of layering, like memory itself. Woloch lives and teaches in southern California.
I told my daughter to pick up the blanket and cot her friend slept on the one night. I have dowels at the end of the hall where I hang blankets.
To gather up a large blanket, fold it in a reasonably neat fashion and pull it over the dowel does take some effort, but it’s very doable, I do it all the time.
Some of us have more active fantasy lives than others, but all of us have them. Here Karin Gottshall, who lives in Vermont, shares a variety of loneliness that some of our readers may have experienced.
Childhood food allergies are apparently much more common in America than previously believed. A clinical study, recently published in the journal Pediatrics, found that about 8 percent of children under the age of 18, almost 6 million, suffer from one or more food allergies.
Yesterday I had a sudden, unexplained urge to reorganize something, so I tore apart our pantry and started putting in new shelving. This morning I woke up feeling impending doom, and it wasn’t because I hadn’t finished organizing our pantry yet. I think it’s because today is the last day of school.
Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra’s popular summer camp is filling up fast.
This camp is a bargain at only $25.
I am especially fond of what we might call landscape poems, describing places, scenes. Here April Lindner, who lives in Philadelphia, paints a scene we might come upon on the back side of any great American city.
Ahhh! Or should I say AARRGG? It’s time for the kids to be home for the summer. It can be a wonderful, bonding experience, but for the most part it is a lot more work for me.
If it were up to them, their summer would consist of staying up until their father left for work at 4:30am, sleeping until late in the afternoon, playing on the computer, Gameboy or Wii, watching TV and starting it all over again.
In February, John Ewell of Maple Valley, was in a car accident that changed his life.
Friends and family of Ewell are hosting a silent auction fundraiser from 1-5 p.m., Saturday, June 25, at Maple Valley Presbyterian Church to help with his medical bills associated with injuries suffered in the accident.
A just released study on the benefits of HDL (the “good”) cholesterol-raising drugs has shown disappointing results. While lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol levels plays an important role in the treatment of heart disease, doctors have long believed that taking active measures to increase HDL levels as well would yield additional benefits.
Many of us have attempted to console friends who have recently been divorced, and though it can be a pretty hard sell, we have assured them that things will indeed be better with the passage of time. Here’s a fine poem of consolation by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, who teaches at Penn State.
Last summer when we were camping in our RV, I told one of my daughters, who shall remain unidentified, to do the dishes.
Tahoma High group wins film making contest with movie “The Last One”
Here’s a fine poem by my fellow Nebraskan, Barbara Schmitz, who here offers us a picture of people we’ve all observed but haven’t thought to write about.
There is a silent killer among us. 15,000 Americans die from it each year and it is the 10th leading cause of death. Innocuously known as Triple A, or AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm is the third leading cause of death in men over age 60. Although twice as common in men as women, the risk of rupture in women is four times greater than in men and when AAA ruptures, it carries a 75-90 percent mortality rate.
Watching TV and playing video games has long been named as one of the culprits for our national obesity crisis. Our sedentary lifestyle habits certainly deserve some of the blame and there is no shortage of advice on how to wean us from our most beloved pastime.
