“Here are a few bucks.” That starts the conversation with my daughter, leading into a deep dive into the United States’ currency history. There are numerous terms related to our monetary system. If you are lucky enough to have some cash in your wallet or the bank, you could be looking at ...

August is midsummer. Strawberries came in June, blueberries in July. Our currants are waning. I’ve been picking raspberries off bushes along the yard and driveway. I pick a few every day; most go straight into my mouth. I try to save some to stir into a salad or put on cereal or yogurt. I ...

Pavement markings make driving on highways safer, and drivers find it easier to drive on roads with yellow passing/no passing lines and white edge lines. The first lane and center-line markings were introduced more than 110 years ago. Painted centerlines were first used in the United States ...

It was nice to see The Enterprise carry a story like the Moose picnic — people having fun, no politics ... and the local news was more fun! “More than 75 members of the Loyal Order of the Moose and the Women of the Moose and their friends attended the joint Moose picnic yesterday ...

Parents of newborns that are a few weeks old have been asking me about pimples that appear to be forming on their baby’s faces. They are wondering if they could be experiencing acne. Believe it or not, babies can get acne. So, let me tell you what’s zit all about. When your baby is ...

In journalism parlance, “scoop,” as a noun, means the latest news. As a verb, it means to get your story in print before any of your rivals. In the dog-eat-dog J-Biz world, where breaking news is everything and morality is nothing, scooping another paper or reporter is just bizness as ...