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Generations: Calm and Purpose Among the Benton Stacks

June 29, 2026
On a recent Saturday, I was finally able to resume my favorite volunteer activity: working at the E.C. Benton Library. People may wonder why I would spend three precious hours of my Saturday afternoon doing volunteer work, but I honestly can’t imagine…

Generations: Gen X Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

June 24, 2024
Summer is supposed to be fun, right? My teens now have their own busy lives, my summer work schedule is flexible. I should be out there doing… Well, I’m not sure exactly what. After so many years centered around family activities, which,…

Generations: Gen Z Needs a Break from Summer Break

June 18, 2024
I’ve always loved summer. When I was younger, the first days of summer meant the end of homework, pop quizzes, and stifling classrooms, and the beginning of lazy days at Walden Pond and cool evening walks to Moozy’s or Payson Park. Summer…

Garden Gems: Mayapples, Bumblebees, and Box Turtles

June 9, 2024
Mayapples, Podophyllum peltatum, are an interesting native woodland plant. Their wide (around one foot) deeply lobed leaves are carried singly or in pairs on 12 to 15-inch stems; a group of them resembles an encampment of green umbrellas, rather like an illustration…

Generations: The Present Can Be All We Have

June 4, 2024
One of the sorrows of age is growing old enough to have lost touch with others. One of the pleasures is being young enough to find them again. During the pandemic, when we all individualized our forms of escape, I began writing…

Generations: Generation X Choose Your Midlife Crisis Wisely

May 25, 2024
There was a time when the phrase “midlife crisis” may have conjured images of expensive sports cars, scandalous affairs, or perhaps simply a dedicated commitment to couch potatoism. Those tropes have changed with Generation X as we move solidly into middle age.…

Generations: Circling the Rotary of Life

May 13, 2024
I’m in the passenger seat of our Volkswagen, trying not to scream. Not that anyone would hear me in this Waverly Oaks office park, abandoned on a Saturday afternoon. I take a few deep breaths, triple-check my seatbelt, and say in what…
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