Category: Voices

Top Two Travel Tips

by Carolyn Mason | Sep 12, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

I’m not a world traveler by any means, but I do love a travel-tip list. I’ll leave a comprehensive...

So, This is About the Incredible Way We Speak, Right?

by Donald Wright | Aug 14, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

Lately, for reasons that are clearly self-serving, I’ve come to believe that persons over age 65...

Mimi Takes to the Bed

by Carolyn Mason | Jul 18, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

“I’m taking to the bed,” I whisper over the phone to my mother, after spending two weeks with the...

Observations from a Trip to the Left Coast

by Donald Wright | Jul 4, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

“By whom or by what had I been impelled to disrupt the normal course of my existence?” asked...

Closing Gate Panic

by Carolyn Mason | Jun 6, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

Leave it to the Germans to capture a whole thing about life transitions in one word. The idea of...

The Power of Giving

by Carolyn Mason | May 23, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

Finding purpose in retirement Most retirement gurus recommend taking your time before jumping into...

Voodoo Economics, or Why I Became a Historian

by Donald Wright | May 9, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

By Donald Wright I went to DePauw University because I thought it was cool. In ninth grade a...

Death Date

by Carolyn Mason | Apr 25, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

My 5-year-old grandson had some big questions while visiting us during his Spring Break. He...

Third Act

by Carolyn Mason | Mar 14, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

As the curtain rises on the third act of life, I’m always searching for ways to be. Retirement has...

My Spreadsheet Dog

by Carolyn Mason | Jan 31, 2023 | Opinion, Voices | 0

We moved to the South Carolina Lowcountry because of two dogs: Hank the Handful, a wild...

“No Hoisties, No Cleansies!”

by Donald Wright | Dec 20, 2022 | Opinion, Voices | 0

The playground at the Hagerstown, Indiana, elementary school, in the early 1950s, had a touch of...

Every Voice Matters

by Cassandra King | Dec 15, 2022 | Opinion, Voices | 1

By Cassandra King Recently the Pat Conroy Literary Center presented a program aimed at addressing...

Pat Conroy in the First

by Margaret Evans | Mar 15, 2022 | Opinion, Voices | 0

By Grey Brendle I ran across Pat Conroy’s “Prince of Tides” in the bookcase and it reminded of his...