Boomers and Beyond - Cover Story
Dressing Down
Since retirement, it seems I have no need to dress up except for church functions. And even the Lutherans have gotten so casual my mother wouldn't recognize them as "proper" Lutherans - hatless women and jeans-clad teens. They even have a jeans day...
Staying in the game
SHELBY - Since 1999, the Golden Girls have teamed up to prove that age doesn't have to keep you from doing something you love."Most of us have always been active in doing sports," said Diane Singleton, who joined the team in its second year. "We all realize...
Programs for printing photos and graphs
In this column I want to briefly discuss graphics. Now, I told you that some topics were a bit foreign to me, not my specialty. Any thing graphical is definitely not my forte. There are three kinds of graphical programs, or programs which...
What did you say?
I look for any rays of joy I can find as I move beyond the supple, smooth skinned, chiseled form and necessary six-pack abdomen that others my age had as I have moved beyond boomerhood. The place where my imaginary six-pack was supposed to have...
Nature's Treasures
KINGS MOUNTAIN - Lou Ballew has lived in Kings Mountain for 68 years. When she and her husband, Chuck, moved to their new home, he made a deal with her. "He said he would cut the grass and I could do all the trimming," she said. So she started planting...
Programs help writers organize their work
Writing is one thing that most people do with computers. This month, I want to broaden our discussion to more writerly programs, that is programs that are just for writing. Most so-called Office Suites are big and bloated. They have more features than...
Negative charges
It's not the first time my husband has spoken to me about my aura. He's not hinting anything about the availability of showers and good hot water right out of the pipes the way he might have if he'd wished to be so unkind as to remind me of childhood...
The chance to compete
BOILING SPRING - JoAnn Burgess, 58, was one of three who participated in the evening field games competition during Senior Games, April 14-18. It didn't matter to her that she was the only contestant in her age category. The others had competed during...
Exploring more free word processing programs
I promised you a better look at Open Office (http://openoffice.org). I mentioned that Open Office is a freely available office software suite based on a program called StarOffice. When I found Open Office , I was excited. There are some features not in...
Grandma knew about blackberries
Blackberries are supposed to be the wonderful product of nature and hours of negotiating the painful pricks from thorns in a fallow field, the juicy, midnight-red fruit from Grandma's Mason jar artfully constructed into a deep dish cobbler for dinner...
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