Got a letter from my bank the other day.
It said I had written a check that bounced, but my bank’s overdraft-protection program had covered it.
The amount was $800,085.
My brain swelled as I tried to figure how long it would take to repay this debt on a journalist’s wages.
I stopped counting at about 40 years when [...]
It’s a dream come true, especially for college students.
Think about it: Hot cookies and brownies, and cold milk delivered to your door or dorm in the evening or early morning.
Insomnia Cookies has arrived in Lexington and anyone within a three-mile radius of the University of Kentucky can have this dream come true by making a [...]
The next time your alarm clock goes off and you feel like you can’t face another work day, think of Nancy Larkin.
The Glasgow resident is 83 years old and still working as a Holter heart monitor and pacemaker technician for Cardiology Associates of Southern Kentucky. She also runs a pacemaker clinic.
Larkin received her medical certification [...]
There’s just so much good stuff going on in some people’s lives that they can’t keep up with it all.
LoriAnn Lowery is one of those lucky folks.
Lowery was named president of Lloyd’s America in April after a 20-year career in insurance.
She told the company’s Kentucky agents last week at Keeneland that she is a sixth-generation [...]
What goes around, comes around — at least for FAO Schwarz.
The legendary New York toy merchant is returning to Lexington in 2009 as a department at Macy’s in Fayette Mall.
It’s all part of a plan to open 685 FAO Schwarz “stores” in Macy’s department stores nationwide by the end of 2009.
A new FAO Schwarz opened [...]
Ever heard of re-wear?
Re-wear occurs, says Procter & Gamble, when someone pulls clothing out of the hamper or off the floor and wears the item for a second time without washing it.
Apparently the high school and college age groups are big practitioners of re-wear so P&G has come up with a line of products, called [...]
You know how it goes. You’re on a business trip. Your laundry starts piling up. You stuff it in one of those hotel laundry bags and drop it in the hall outside your room. A day or two later, your clothing comes back cleaned and pressed.
The one thing you usually don’t do is to check [...]
Technology is great, right — as long as it does what we want it to do.
If not, there can be red faces all around, like those at the American Family Association and its Onenewsnow.com Web site.
Onenewsnow handles a lot of Associated Press copy and its small staff doesn’t always have time to read every item [...]
Those who regularly pass Southside Church of Christ on Nicholasville Road are used to seeing Christian messages on the church’s sign.
“Jesus is ready for you,” it might say. “Are you ready for Jesus?”
Then, a couple of days ago, the secular replaced the sacred on Southside’s sign: “UK Football Parking Pass 278-9533.”
What happened?
In a word, prohibition.
The [...]
Those who regularly pass Southside Church of Christ on Nicholasville Road are used to seeing Christian messages on the church’s sign.
“Jesus is ready for you,” it might say. “Are you ready for Jesus?”
Then, a couple of days ago, the secular replaced the sacred on Southside’s sign: “UK Football Parking Pass 278-9533.”
What happened?
In a word, prohibition.
The [...]
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