

Summer Jobs
If you are from the city you may not relate to this but, here in central Illinois where we are blessed with the blackest, richest soil on earth, we grow corn, really tall, good corn and beans. As it turns out, we are known as the “bread basket of the world”. In July the weather here is hot and steamy, the high humidity sometimes makes it difficult to breathe. If young people in this area want to earn money, and most do, they can de-tassel corn or walk beans. With most compani


Party Lines
There isn’t much that I know about video games and when it comes to Facebook, I use it mostly to see pictures of the grand-kids. Concerning the internet, I am a complete “eye roll” to my kids and grand-kids. Wii, Xbox, wireless routers, printers, scanners, gigabytes, and downloaded apps are a mystery to me. The most aggravating things are “passwords”. Our passwords need passwords in order to protect our “passwords”. I’m from a simpler time, the era of dial tones, manual t