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I love being with children as we head into the holidays. Children help us relive our own childhood. Just being around children brings gifts of wonder, laughter and looking forward to each day. Their joy of living life is definitely contagious to adults. All grown-ups...

By SEAN DIETRICH You’re going to be OK. That’s not an opinion. It’s not a guess. This isn’t some trite little catchphrase from some crappy motivational book that reads like it was written by a greasy televangelist. You’re going to be OK. It’s the plain truth. You...

By WENDY HODGE My grandmother’s coffee table was a polished walnut, smooth to the touch. It was an antique even then, 50 years ago. And on it sat the inevitable coffee table book. Hers was a collection of Norman Rockwell paintings. From time to time, I would enter...

By ANN CIPPERLY Yummy cakes, cookies and candy, along with hearty soups and casseroles by the United Women in Faith, will be available at the Christmas Market Saturday, Dec. 3, from 8:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Auburn United Methodist Church (AUMC) Mathison Building...