Sandra Thomas
Recent stories
- Politics hasn’t changed much
- October 9, 2008
- Recently, a friend of mine shook her head in aggravation with the steady barrage of political attack ads omnipresent on television during this season.
- ‘Tin Lizzy’ turns 100
- October 2, 2008
- This year marks the 100th year since Henry Ford began making and selling his famous Model T’s. He improved the manufacturing process until an entire vehicle could be assembled in 90 minutes, using one color of fast-drying paint.
- Love of music gives a lifetime of pleasure
- September 25, 2008
- I doggedly took piano lessons at my mother’s insistence every summer, but alas, I remained at best a pedestrian plunker. My music teachers always placed me in the loudest group in choirs to drown out my toneless howlings.
- Teens’ cliquishness, cruelty nothing new
- September 18, 2008
- The recent cool and rainy weather is making inroads on my consciousness.
- Phone books nearing obsolescence
- September 10, 2008
- Phone books are probably the one thing a person can throw recklessly at our driveway without stopping their vehicle and rest assured they won’t be stolen.
- Cows don’t have a Labor Day
- September 4, 2008
- When I was a youngster, I always wondered why we didn’t get mail on Labor Day. Of course, as people who lived on a farm, there was always work to be done regardless of holidays or anything else - animals to be fed, cows to be milked, eggs to be gathered and always the fields beckoned the harvester, the plow, the cultivator, the planter.
- You say tomato, I say let’s eat
- August 28, 2008
- My husband, who normally eschews all contact with green living things, decided to grow tomatoes this year. He has done this a time or two before with my prodding, but this year he got into the whole project with enthusiasm.
- Online dangers necessitate education, supervision
- August 21, 2008
- Even with the days beginning to grow shorter, the weather is still warm and muggy, but there is a tinge of crispness in the air from time to time. We are rapidly approaching my favorite season of the year - autumn.
- Olympic display calls to mind historic sights, progress in China
- August 14, 2008
- Yep! I watched the whole thing - the entire opening Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremony as broadcast on television. And I was blown away by the size and scope of the show.
- Fairy tale classics can present issues with youngsters
- July 31, 2008
- Almost everybody agrees that reading to young children is important, but not everybody agrees on what should be read or should not be read to children. As our country continues to grow in diversity of ethnicity, religion and political views, the literature available for children shows an ever-increasing diversity.
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