Articles by Janice Crow

Yes, I’m one of those ancestry people….those folks who can’t pass a grave yard without the urge to stop the car and study the tombstones. What if that long-lost relative….that third great grandfather I’ve been […]

I am directionally challenged. I come by it honestly. Dad was too. Mom, on the other hand, could be tied up in a tow sack, spun in a centrifuge, dumped onto the pavement, and still […]

You know, I can’t honestly say I’m one of those people who lives to visit an amusement park. I’ve been to a few in my life, and I’m glad I had the experience; but I […]

The older I get the more my life is divided into chapters. Instead of one long continuous story that has a beginning, a middle and an end, my life seems to be more like a […]

Anybody who has followed my column for more than a month or two knows that nothing sends me to the exit faster than an unruly, obnoxious child.  Okay….I can already feel some of you bristling. […]

  I will freely admit it….I am a bit of a technophobe. Take remote controls, for instance. Today, we have no less than five of them sitting on the family room coffee table…. one that […]

  “Oh, I’d love to be an Oscar-Mayer weiner. That is what I’d truly like to be. ‘Cause if I were an Oscar-Mayer weiner, everyone would be in love with me.” My guess is as […]

 I’ll have to admit that I have always had a “personal space” issue. I come by it honestly. Four out of us five siblings could stretch our arms out to the side, spin counter-clockwise and […]

 So, tomorrow I start again….another diet…probably the fourteenth in the last twelve months. It’s not that I don’t want to lose weight. I do. I seriously do. It’s just that……well, I’m sure I don’t have […]

It’s amazing what you can learn crawling around under a table…..or so I recall. I hadn’t thought of that in years until the other day when I was trying to remove the extender leaf from […]