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...
Sep 9, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener There is an old, dead sassafras tree about a foot in diameter at its base that fell and hung up in a neighboring tree about 15 years ago here in the wilderness. It’s about 10 feet from the screened-in porch and we have watched birds, blue-tailed...
Aug 26, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener For those of you who have eclipsed the Ides of your century (for thosee challenged by history and literature, that’s over age 50) remember, getting older is better than the alternative.It will be some time before I am four score and seven years as my...
