This Thanksgiving, one of the blessings I’m grateful for is our community’s embracing of the arts. Though Norfolk may not be a large town, it does boast an arts presence that rivals Nebraska’s larger cities. Norfolk has a community art center, community theatre and a sculpture walk. Live mus…

“There’s another one!” Tom would tell Maddie and me as we were driving down the interstate in Georgia this summer. By the time it registered we needed to look outside our car going some 70 miles per hour we missed seeing anything. Tom was keeping his eye out for armadillos and, actually, roa…

Some might call me a glutton for punishment for braving the chilly weather last week in an attempt to hang my first set of antlers on the wall.

One of the stupidest platitudes ever uttered is “There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” Of course there’s such a thing as a stupid question —just as there is such a thing as stupidity in general.

Victor Hugo published his well-known novel about a deformed bell ringer in 1831. I own a Barnes and Noble Classics edition published in 2004. In it, there is a biography about Hugo in which I learned that the writer was so beloved that two million people joined his funeral procession through…

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and it’s time to plan your charcuterie board. You maybe thought people still arranged bite sized carrots and pieces of celery in a relish tray with some onion dip and they were set for hors d’oeuvres. They’re not. In 2021, when turkey may be in short s…

Public libraries everywhere are a reflection of their communities. They design their programs, collections and services around the unique needs of the people they serve. For this to work well, libraries must listen to the people in their community to know what they want. Sometimes this is do…