Since St.Valentine’s Day, the time for the celebration of love, is upon us, it seems appropriate to examine the differences between the sexes. All right, one difference. Have you ever noticed the dissimilarity between the way...

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the range of time. – John Donne, The Sun Rising, 1595Singles often complain that all the good ones are taken. They want to believe in true...

Is buaine port n‡ gl—r na n-Žan, Is buaine focal n‡ toice an tsaoil. (A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds, And a word more lasting than the wealth of the world.) – Old Gaelic proverbThere is an old saying...

April 15. You know what that means. It is the deadline for filing and paying income taxes. And waiting until the second week of April to fill out your forms and rush off to the post office is like waiting until Christmas Eve to...

It was dawn on a cold, clear winter’s day and Frank Bauerlein was tracking deer at a Lippy Brothers’ farm in Carroll County. Spotting one of the animals that had been eating vegetables in one of the company’s many farms, he...

Mount Airy orthodontist Dr. Stuart A. Sheer has held his breath as the little prop plane he was aboard squeezed between Himalayan peaks to reach a remote airstrip in Bhutan. Dental daredevil? No, a man on a mission. Sheer is one...

Your family has tracked snow and salt through your house with careless abandon. You pulled off a marathon Christmas cookie-baking session that your kitchen still has not recovered from. The entire family has spent an inordinate...

The Finch family of Carroll County has moved from farming to golf in five generations. Not that the John Deere dealers have evolved from tillers of the soil to a family of Arnold Palmers. They are still in the business of...

Film Lovers in Carroll County (FLICC) have chosen four movies for the February Foreign Film Festival at the Carroll Arts Center. Films will be shown every Friday in February at 8 p.m. on. All will have English subtitles. Tickets...

Their Valentine’s Day love story began on Christmas Eve, December 2008. Mike Fernekees, 22, and Nicole Clayton, 24, joined hands and wed in front of friends and strangers at the Human Services Program Cold Weather Shelter...

Glass milk bottles clink in crates in the back of Jackie Coldsmith’s truck as she makes the weekly trip from her farm in Taneytown to a parking lot near Panera Bread in Westminster. If you are old enough, the sound might take...

As everyone knows (you do, don’t you?), last month marked what would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday. To celebrate, Joe Forrester of Manchester, and Jed Duvall of Glen Burnie, drew about 150 paying Elvis fans to the...