Gentle ways, kind voices
By JANET HART LEONARD From the Hart His ways were gentle. His voice was kind. He always made me feel safe and secure and most of all … loved. His…
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What I did on summer vacation (circa 1974)
By SCOTT SAALMAN Scaramouch “Put in a quarter / Turn out the light / Magic Fingers makes ya feel alright.” – Steve Goodman My first vacation with my parents was…
Surviving the awkward years
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect The topic of my adoption didn’t come up very often between my parents and me after that revealing Sunday. I do remember being a preteen…
Calling on Congress to keep prescriptions safe
By SUZIE JAWOROWSKI Guest Columnist Last November, Fishers police issued a warning about counterfeit pills they thought were linked to at least three deaths and several overdoses in the city….
Apples & seed
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler I recently read a letter from my mother, and it contained this quote: “Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can…
The birds & the bees: Pollinator gardens
By MEGAN RATHZ When Nature Speaks “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Every time I read those brilliant words of…
The gift of … shhh
By JANET HART LEONARD From the Hart There’s just something about silence. Shhh … As I was growing up, I watched my mother sit on her front porch and rock…
Breaking bald: Funny, he writes like he has hair
By SCOTT SAALMAN Scaramouch I was alone, eating a fish sandwich at Arby’s, when I heard a reverend delivering some sort of moment of reflection via local radio. His subject…
A difficult conversation
By AMY SHANKLAND Perfectly Imperfect Thank you for the wonderful comments from last week. My adoption and reunion story will be slowly revealed every Friday, just like a television program…
Westfield, is it time to move to a class 2 city?
By RON MOORE Guest Columnist Editor’s note: This is the final column in a series of four addressing the issue of whether Westfield should change its status from a class…