Today's News

By Tara Kaprowy
Kentucky Health News
At every Girl Scouts meeting, Christmas concert, soccer field and swimming pool in Kentucky lies a trend that is easy to spot. It doesn't have to do with the Toms on the children's feet or the feathers affixed to their hair. It's the fact that every third child in Kentucky is overweight, and many of them are obese. As they stand in front of the crowd or struggle to swim to the other side, the problem is plain. Its consequences are not so plan, but are far-reaching.

I'm sorry. Apparently, all we needed to end the drought was for me to put in a hose spigot at the bottom of the hill.
The years of hauling water in gallon jugs up and down the hill, from plant to plant to plant is over. Can't say I'll miss it, though it did wonders for my biceps.
Just as I'm ready to turn on the hose, Mother Nature steps in to supply all I need. Well, at least I'm ready for next year.

The economy.
If you listen closely to the way people talk about the economy, you expect Frankenstein’s monster pieced together from the most terrifying of horror film creatures.
Like the nameless beast hiding underneath the bed, the economy creates havoc without anyone physically seeing or touching it.
“The economy” induces enough stress and fear, it seems, to launch a thousand nightmares.
It starves. It steals. It turns decent people desperate.