Ladies, high heels and courage

Cindy ArpOur Town Outdoors

As a younger woman, I frequently wore high heels. For women of a certain stature, heels allow one to aspire to 5-3 or, if one has good balance, possibly 5-4. …

Daddies, daughters and bikinis

Cindy ArpPowell

At a certain time in my life, I started noticing boys were no longer annoying creatures making car sounds while running around on the playground hitting each other. Now they …

Adventures in high school land

Cindy ArpEast Knox

After teaching and being a librarian in grades K-8 for 20 years, I spent my last 19 years working as a high school librarian. At that time Knox County high …

Hello young mothers, wherever you are *

Cindy ArpPowell

Having a much-loved, much-anticipated grandbaby in the family brings back memories of my mother. Mother was a mover and shaker who kept us very busy.
“The girls need dance and piano …

Wrinkles in paradise

Cindy ArpOur Town Outdoors

Dan and I often take long camping trips, mostly in the West. The blue skies and mountains of New Mexico call to us, and we often land in Santa Fe …

A walk on the farm

Cindy ArpPowell

Slowly emerging from a gray, rainy, sunny, cold, warm winter, our old farm is showing us how to “pick yourself up … dust yourself off … and start all over …

The Young and the Restless (with pardons to CBS)

Cindy ArpPowell

I use a hair salon every six weeks. The salon is full of beautiful, up-to-the-minute young ladies with plumped lips, tattooed bodies, amazing eyelashes and eyebrows, and flawless make-up and …