Balloons have lost some of their “fun factor.” I mean, how much fun can they be when we’re popping them with F-22 Raptor fighter jets costing hundreds of millions apiece and tens of thousands of dollars to fly it just for one hour?

According to Wikipedia, “Prudence Margaret Leith is a British-South African restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist. She is (even) chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC’s ‘Great…

Having just endured some of the coldest sustained temperatures on record here in the Sandhills, why would the frozen fountains, ponds and lakes that dot our landscape remind me of our tenuous hold on life? Well, those icy waters did remind me of that and more. They also reminded me of growin…