Jun 17, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener I recently stumbled across a quote by Frederick Douglass, “Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” It seems appropriate for these current times so I reflected on two other great...
Jun 10, 2020 | Curt Comments
In light of social distancing, fun-times cancellations, the mental and emotional anxiety caused by coronavirus, perhaps it is time again for a column of real-life(?) lightheartedness(?) and observations from my caustic desk calendar.•Better grab your dumbrella. It’s...
Jun 3, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener From my observations of the wilderness fencerows and open areas, this should be a bonanza year.It seems that all of the dynamics have come together for a bumper crop of wild blackberry.The winter was warm so few dormant second year canes were frozen....
May 27, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener(This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.)This column for post Memorial Day weekend is being written from the woodland wilderness. Many of these meanderings are inspired here, but this one for this time seems particularly appropriate.It...
May 13, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt KovenerIrony: (n) a state of affairs or event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects.Hypocrisy: (n) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform; pretense.When is it irony and when is it...
Apr 22, 2020 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Back in the day…better make that WAY back in the day when I was a first responder on the volunteer fire department, we would get called out to put of grass fires, field fires and woods fires. And there were times that, using what was tantamount to a...
