Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

Birthdays must be good for you because statistics show that people who have the most, live the longest. (Anonymous)

I like to write. I write this column, a church newsletter, plus a note on the back of our Sunday bulletin, a sermon, an adult Sunday School class, and a Thursday Bible study lesson. Every class I teach gets a handout with my notes printed out. Sometimes I overlap the content. Most of the time I don’t. Some people enjoy what I write, others are offended by it.

Every year when we set the clocks back in the fall, and it gets dark at 5 o’clock, it reminds me of...