Linda Wenger's column

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• Rain bonnets, pocketbooks and overshoes

  By Linda Wenger - Dec 07
  I’m learning the hard way that people sometimes have to do things that may embarrass them. When I was young and more calloused, usually out of ...
  

• Girls’ weekend out

  By Linda Wenger - Nov 08
  Later this month, my mom, sister, three nieces and I are going on an overnight trip to Chicago. It will be a girls’ weekend out. I’m not sure what ...
  

• When my set-in-the-ways get in my way

  By Linda Wenger - Oct 11
  After eating on Corelle dinnerware for decades and after growing tired of seeing the same old stuff on the kitchen table I decided it was time to ...
  
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  40 Years

  By Linda Wenger - Jun 07
  The trembling coursed through her body like it never had before in her 21 years. Her bridesmaids — her best friend and two sisters — had walked ...
  

• Zoolights

  By Linda Wenger - Jan 06
  Sometimes God thumps me on my forehead to let me know my swift judgments are not his swift judgments. My husband Jim, daughter and son-in-law ...
  

• Hard work

  By Linda Wenger - Nov 30
  I’m sitting at my computer wishing that I could find a column topic so compelling and so easy to write that I wouldn’t have to work hard at ...
  

• Close encounter of the slithering kind

  By Linda Wenger - Oct 18
  I was opening the back door a few evenings ago when I looked to my left and saw a reptilian eye looking at me. I took in the shape of its head. I ...
  

• They saved the nation

  By Linda Wenger - Oct 04
  When I was 10 years old, my grandparents planned to take me to Washington, D.C., for a week to see our nation’s capitol. The night before we were ...
  

• Be a good one

  By Linda Wenger - Feb 16
  I never let Abraham Lincoln’s birthday go by without thought or comment. He was born 203 years ago on Feb. 12, and I remember when his birthday ...
  

• Big Santa is watching you

  By Linda Wenger - Dec 22
  The lyrics of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” in this day and age comes with a new understanding of what it means to be seen “when you’re sleeping”...