Nov 4, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We now find ourselves in the eleventh month of a year many of us wish would hurry and get over so we can (optimistically) look forward to a new and improved 2021. But to soothe our souls, contemplate on the observations of others about the month we...
Oct 28, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener All Hollow’s Eve is this Saturday, but how did it get to be what it is today?Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the...
Oct 21, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener There isn’t anything funny about the cemeteries around Jackson and Scott Counties. At one time though there was prose etched onto tombstones. Today it is a name and a beginning and ending date separated by a dash.And there is a lot of living...
Oct 7, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener For those high school students of my generation, we all recall how long-time CHS English teacher Corean Lewis tried to improve our vocabulary. Serendipity is one such word. It means an occurrence or development of events by chance in a happy or...
Sep 23, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I don’t like to get scared. I’m not talking about the anxiety you feel waiting in the dentist’s office or that initial worry when you look in your mailbox to see a letter with a return address to the Internal Revenue Service or that feeling of sudden...
Sep 16, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener In the beginning, it was pretty simple. I had a birth date which hasn’t changed, a birth weight which has continued to grow as I grow out, and a birth length which today is a long way from my original 19” height (or is it horizontal since it was a...
