The calendar says spring has arrived, but I’ll bet you still could use a reminder that warmer days are ahead.

The supermarket where we often shop, the Bowling Green Kroger’s, is nearly finished with a major expansion. Now you need a GPS to find your way around.

Your snowbird friends have all been enjoying warmer weather in Florida for months.

One of the outcomes of the presidential election is the return of vigorous public speech. The good old political protest.

Thanks to global warming, green -- the color of money -- is the new white in the Arctic Ocean. History was made several months ago in the Arctic. It was good history if you are in the tourism business in Alaska and northern Canada. It was bad history if you’re into environmental protection.

It's been a while since I got up on my soap box to complain about abuse of the language and improper grammar, so please indulge me while I vent. The target of my distress today? The habit of people who should know better to misuse words such as “amazed,” or “surprised,” or one of my favorites, “appalled.”

Several years ago, when Frank Horton was the president of the University of Toledo, he was chatting with a small group of people, including me, about the desire of many UT students for more parking lots and parking spaces on campus.

For years I have had this little mental exercise where I contemplate what food I would least like to give up for the rest of my life.

What is it about leaving a voice mail message that befuddles us so? Comments that might sound pithy or clever in a face-to-face, two-way conversation tend to lose their zip when we are speaking all by ourselves into someone else’s telephone.

I have decided that when it’s necessary to make a list of my lists, it’s time to reevaluate my life and daily routine.