Cheerios, cheese crackers, clothing and grocery gift certificates are among the most requested items in Home Instead Senior Care's Be a Santa to a Senior program, a nationally based program that last year supplied 515,500 gifts to 318,500 seniors. ...more

December 6, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The boxes, filled with Cheerios, Jell-O, Ramen noodles, spaghetti and all manner of canned goods, were carried from the guidance counselor's area at Pine View Middle School out to two large pickups in the parking lot. ...more

November 8, 2008

When I was young . . . People left their doors unlocked, ...more

July 13, 2008

I like mutts. Even though I spent quite a few years raising and training Brittany spaniels, and have owned a half-dozen other "purebred" dogs, the critters of mixed and usually indeterminable ancestry have a special place in my heart. ...more

January 1, 2008