More Columns From This Author

Where there is no vision, no solution, don’t prognosticate
February 1, 2012

These days people are so busy. It takes two incomes for many families to make ends meet. In addition to raising children, taking care of their home and just being worn out, many people don’t have the chance or don’t have the time to care, or work to understand, a document such as Chesterfield’s draft countywide comprehensive plan.

It's about the kids or is it?
January 25, 2012

Do you remember class trips from childhood? The excitement leading up the the big day; studying what the destination had to offer. And then the big day came. Your mother made sure you had a packed lunch and the money for admission to the venue.

Community in action
January 18, 2012

I have a friend, Colby, who is into everything. He’s involved in some sort of woodworking club - they get together and swap tips about projects and types of wood and so on. He’s in a service club. His wife plays Bunco with the neighbor ladies.

Refreshment and speculation
January 11, 2012

I can’t seem to concentrate this week, my head is either too full or too empty to hold any one thought for any amount of time. It’s been working like one of those conversations that bounce all over the place.

Refreshment and speculation
January 4, 2012

As Linda and I were driving out of the Southern Area Transfer Station, otherwise known as the dump, there was quite a line of vehicles on their way in. Pickups, pickups with trailers long and short and a SUV stuffed full were in the queue waiting to pay and unload those things that definitely wouldn’t work for them in 2012.

Resolutions
December 29, 2011

I play guitar. Sort of. I’ve been picking at it for some 35 years on and off. I play by ear, at least that’s what I say. I can pick up a melody rather quickly and then the chords, although my speed is like the service sit-down restaurant versus that of a drive-through.

The season for giving and receiving
December 21, 2011

We are all children at Christmas. We, as adults, claim it’s better to give than receive. While that is true, there is also a little piece inside of us that says I hope that I receive, too. And not just receive, but receive something with meaning, a gift with some thought behind it.

Of shopping and the Chesterfield Mountains
December 14, 2011

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, when you find yourself shopping at Short Pump. I know we’re supposed to shop local, as in Chesterfield or in our own little villages, but we can’t always find what we need or want right here.

Aesthetics is a quality-of-life issue
December 7, 2011

Over the weekend something appeared on West Hundred Road as it passes through Chester’s historic village – Christmas wreaths. The wreaths were placed on about six streetlight poles, and they make the village just a little bit more cheery.

Making a correction
November 30, 2011

I’m sure that there are some people who would like to yoke me to a pillory occasionally when I lash out from this column and rant about what I think is an unfair practice or policy in Chesterfield. You know, sometimes you just can’t hold back.