Fourth Quarter Photo Challenge Winners

December Photography Contest Winners

Quail Creek Air Gun Club

Let’s Travel Club

Let’s Travel Club

Linn Myrick On Jan. 16 members of Let’s Travel Club carpooled to Tucson on a day trip, “Exploring Black History in Arizona and Lunch.” The date was intentional to align closely with the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the…

Word of the Month: Meliorist

David Zapatka Reader, friend and fellow bridge player, Maria, writes, “Hi Dave. I came across this word while reading The Road to Character by David Brooks. He was describing the life and writing of George Eliot. ‘She was a meliorist and a gradualist, believing that people and society were best reformed by slow stretching, not…

Living Retired: Losing Sleep

Living Retired: Losing Sleep Gary Chalk Monday night, as part of my dental treatment for a recent ladder fall, was my first night going to bed with a temporary retainer in my mouth. Tuesday night was my first night going to bed in our new fancy-schmancy adjustable bed. All this happened so quickly I did…