http://www.times-news.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_199195125.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_199195125.html On a recent shopping outing I was asked an interesting question. As we checked out, the cashier at the department store asked, "Did you find everything okay?" Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:54:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_185105516.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_185105516.html Have you ever noticed how many food products are "enriched" with vitamins and minerals? Actually, the term might be "re"-enriched because much of the nutritional value of foods such as bread is depleted when it is processed to give it longer shelf life. Vitamins and nutrients that are lost in this manufacturing processing are restored. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:16:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_178131624.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_178131624.html It was the same day that I rappelled off the tower that I climbed up its rock wall side. I had come to the conclusion that a near-50- year-old man need not prove himself anymore, when a voice in my head said, "Do it anyway!" Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:14:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_171141519.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_171141519.html I recently returned from east Tennessee after speaking for a week at a youth camp. While there, I tried to get to know the young people and participate in many of the activities with them. Tubing on the lake, swimming, rappelling, rock wall climbing, and riding go-carts all combined to make it a truly exhausting work week. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:38:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_164113900.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_164113900.html Sunday is Father's Day and the television is filled with advertisements for potential gifts that seem to follow two lines of thinking. One line of gifts I've particularly noticed are handyman type gifts. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:58:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_157105847.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_157105847.html My garden plantings are growing like weeds. Oh, wait a minute, that one was a weed. A closer inspection reveals that something is gnawing on my plants. The leaves are missing on some of the vegetation and I suspect a wabbit! I asked my wife if rabbits had any natural enemies. She said, "Elmer Fudd." She's no help at all. Thu, 29 May 2008 12:11:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_150121224.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_150121224.html I was working in my garden the other day. Well, it's not really a garden as much as a patch. Actually, patch may be stretching it a bit also. Perhaps bed is the most accurate rendering. A twin size bed to be exact. Thu, 22 May 2008 12:38:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_143123843.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_143123843.html A friend of mine was playing in a golf tournament and had to buy some balls, so I asked him what kind he bought. "Super-Long" was his reply. Thu, 15 May 2008 12:22:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_136122308.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_136122308.html Have you noticed how two people may look at the same piece of artwork and yet come away with totally different interpretations of it? The same is true of poetry, music, and fluffy cloud formations. Thu, 08 May 2008 11:53:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_129115347.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_129115347.html My mom was a child of the Depression. No, she wasn't sad all the time, she grew up in the 1920's during the great economic depression. Thu, 01 May 2008 12:27:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_122122813.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_122122813.html Lately, a television commercial is proposing that we change the way we buy a new or used car. No longer should we actually go to a car dealer, kick the tires or take it for a test drive. Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:07:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_115110740.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_115110740.html I hesitate to admit that I watch American Idol as idols and pastors are usually incompatible. I do, however, watch it for its musical value rather than its spiritual content. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:54:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_108115519.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_108115519.html When I was growing up, my parents told stories of how bad things were when they were kids. In truth, things were bad for them. Neither of my parents attended school beyond the eighth grade as both of them had to go to work to help their families survive. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:10:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_094121102.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_094121102.html I'm looking, actually searching, for another word for synonym. A word that is similar, yet not necessarily interchangeable. Alike, but it doesn't have to be equivalent or identical. Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:14:00 +0000 http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_080121502.html http://www.times-news.com/davidsandvick/local_story_080121502.html This year, it feels like Easter is coming too early and I don't feel ready for it. I have no candy stock-piled; no eggs colored, and our traditional hand-made baskets are still in storage.