- Janet Sheridan: Overeating, pie and Aunt Mary
- November 20, 2009
- I love Thanksgiving. Growing up, I looked forward to the quiet holiday tucked between my birthday and Christmas, because I could eat all I wanted — an unusual occurrence when competing on a daily basis with six siblings, hungry and mean.
- Ed Wilkinson: Con artist looking for veteran mark
- November 19, 2009
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4265 and American Legion Post 62 members need to be aware of a possible scam involving a person claiming to be a veteran and needing assistance to get back to his home in Arizona.
- Diane Prather: ‘Pumpkin Cake’ a Thanksgiving favorite
- November 19, 2009
- Thanksgiving is the time to cook up old favorites, and one of my all-time favorites is “Pumpkin Cake.” I may have featured the recipe in this column previously, but it’s worth repeating.
- Cathy Hamilton: Girl Scouts could end crisis
- November 19, 2009
- I am hunkered down over my keyboard, working feverishly (OK, tepidly) on my weekly column. The topic? Something about how I’ve sacrificed my lunch hour with people for a daily tete-a-tete with the dog.
- Andy Bockelman: ‘The Box’ a disappointing story
- November 18, 2009
- “The Box” screenplay is the weak point of writer/director Richard Kelly’s third feature. Reworking the structure of Richard Matheson’s short story “Button, Button” — also made into an episode of the 1980s redo of “The Twilight Zone” — Kelly expands it with an unfortunate outcome.
- Maren Schmidt: What social style is your child?
- November 17, 2009
- In ancient Greece, Hippocrates defined four personality types: sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic. These were based on body fluids, or humors.
- H. Neal Glanville: Where life isn’t interrupted
- November 16, 2009
- Hiding places. We all have them, the secret spots in our brain where we can slip away from the crud of adulthood and enjoy life as we imagine it should be.
- Andy Bockelman: Not too early for ‘Christmas Carol’
- November 16, 2009
- The Christmas season starts earlier and earlier every year, usually eclipsing Thanksgiving. One thing you can give thanks for is that the 2009’s interpretation of “A Christmas Carol” didn’t come out before Halloween.
- Kathy Bassett: Lovin’ Maybell
- November 14, 2009
- Maybell is a ranching community 30 miles west of Craig. We love our teensy town!
- Ed Wilkinson: A fitting, enlightening Veterans Day tribute
- November 14, 2009
- Many veterans attended the Veterans Day activities Wednesday at Moffat County High School.
- Andy Bockelman: ‘Men Who Stare’ mostly a goat chase
- November 14, 2009
- “The Men Who Stare at Goats” shows just what you can do with enough concentration and determination.
- Diane Prather: Cranberry salad worth menu consideration
- November 14, 2009
- To make “Cranberry Salad,” you’ll need: a small package of raspberry gelatin, 1 cup boiling water, a small, flat can of crushed pineapple, a 16-ounce can whole cranberry sauce, two bananas (sliced), and 1/2 cup chopped pecans.
- Janet Sheridan: Fossils don’t use Facebook
- November 13, 2009
- I sat in the top row of an arena during the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament, baffled by the timeout behavior of the crowd. When action on the court stopped, fans occupied themselves by visiting the Internet or sending texts on cell phones that glowed like fireflies throughout the stadium.
- Kathy Bassett: Lovin’ Maybell
- November 12, 2009
- Maybell is a ranching community 30 miles west of Craig. The population is less than 100. It is an unincorporated community governed by the Moffat County Commissioners, who provide the streets and roads and have a county shop located in Maybell, along with law enforcement, library, ambulance services, and a small all-volunteer fire department.
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