Each year on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day is celebrated by many people throughout the world for the day is celebrated as a holiday in several countries. The norm is to exchange cards, candy, gifts, and flowers with a special “valentine” and loved ones. According to the History Channel ...

Over the years I have seen both good and bad marriages. What follows is a psychologist’s opinion as to a few of the factors that contribute to a successful, mutually satisfying, healthy marriage. There certainly are more factors that could be listed here, but what follows are a few that have ...

During a recent trip to a favorite slump-buster of a panfish lake, I was reminded that sometimes a few extra moments pay off with bites from fish and sometimes schools of them that settle in once the din of drilling holes over a chosen area dies off. It’s that never-give-up attitude that can ...

In today’s chaotic world, it seems we could all use a few words of wisdom. I recently came across an article about Charlie Chaplin. One of his comments referred to the six best doctors in the world. I found those words of wisdom to be timely and upbeat. While pondering them, I, of course, ...

One of the first things my wife and I did when we moved into our farmhouse more than four decades ago was dig a well. Our house, which was built by my grandparents in the early 1960s, drew its water from a cistern. This was good and bad. It was good because the cistern was supplied by ...

Heart disease has been the number 1 killer in America for a century. Nearly half of all people have some type of cardiovascular disease, yet 38% don’t even realize they have it, according to the American Heart Association. That makes American Heart Month each February an important time of ...