The Norfolk Arts Center is bringing music and art to the riverfront with ’Fork Fest on Friday, August 21st. An annual event that grew out of the Hear Nebraska Good Living Tour, this year’s ’Fork Fest has been dubbed “social distancing style” to reflect precautions being taken for the communi…

None of us could have pictured a year ago that kids would be heading back to school wearing masks all day, that there wouldn’t be Husker football games, and that weddings would be curtailed if not completely canceled.

My mother thought that something was wrong with me. When I was in kindergarten or first grade, she took me to the doctor.

As if we need any more weird occurrences this year, we were recently the recipients of one of those packages of mystery seeds from China.

After last month’s piece about reasons to have a home library, a reader wrote me asking how a person could economically build up such a library. I replied with some general advice involving good places to buy used books, but I left out the role that serendipity has played in many of the book…

Alligators, snakes, sharks and lottery winners.

Next week, we will be in Pennsylvania visiting our daughter who is in school in Erie, which is right on Lake Erie.

Although I wasn’t exactly born in the outdoors, my history with it goes way back. Growing up, my parents didn’t travel much. In fact, the last family vacation we took was when I was a year old.

“I never imagined that we’d be doing this tonight,” my husband commented.

That spare change jar you have sitting on top of your bedroom dresser may be valuable — maybe even worth more than the coins’ face value.

Hundreds of adoring fans swarmed around me this past week, letting me know that they truly love me. I have become like a rock star with a fan club.

My summer preparation for the start of the coming school year includes preparing for some new classes I’ll be teaching.

I was hooked the first time I watched a video of a person cutting into what looked like a hot cup of latte.