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So instead of ensuring these folks have a roof over their heads, protecting them from the elements and the vagaries of the street, we'll toss em directly into the wild, thereby damned near guaranteeing additional costs to society from increased ER visits, police interventions, court costs, and the thousand other hidden costs of homelessness that continue to ble

Young people sat silently and on the edge of their Calsonic Arena seats on Valentine's Night as Barb Wise shared the heart-wrenching story of her journey from a diagnosis of HIV at age 27 -- to...

We were lucky last night in Neliganville.

Took shelter in the basement once with the family and Sheriff Itchy.

Note from Barb N: Sheriff Itchy hates storms, by the way. Not that he's afraid of them, because he's not. He just hates them.

Got up at midnight and two a.m. when tornado sirens cranked up, but all in all we came through unscathed and for that we are grateful.

As news of the damage came through it seemed so surrreal, and our thoughts and prayers go out

As I mentioned earlier I stopped at a Cracker Barrel just south of Louisville during my recent travels.

. . . in Indianapolis, which is where I am at the moment.

Right now it's 6 degrees and, according to weather.com, feels like negative 7. Yes, that's negative 7 and, yes, I agree with that assessment.

Woke up to an almost flat tire. Got a nail stuck in it. So instead of going to the Neliganville diner, I had to hoof it first thing to Ms. Marco, the Grease Monkey's, Garage and get that hole plugged up.

There were already three cars ahead of me when I got there, so I was looking at an hour and a half wait. With my daily routine already derailed, I decided, "What the heck," instead of walking across town to the diner, I'll get a cup of coffee at the Starbuck's located across the street

As mentioned previously, the Indiana branch of the family is VERY serious about their hunting.

As we have discussed, those Hoosiers LOVE them some yard art. Here are a few samples from a quick drive around town this morning.

Your garden variety deer . . .