Thanksgiving is over, the leftovers are gone, and now it is time to focus on the big one — Christmas. The day after Thanksgiving used to be the official start of the Christmas shopping season and has been termed “Black Friday” since 1952. Originally, the term “Black Friday” was coined…
If you are like me, you watched the news closely in late September as Tropical Storm Ian moved into the Caribbean Sea and gained strength. Ian strengthened to a Category 3 hurricane and hit western Cuba, resulting in a nationwide power outage. The weather models began to predict that the…
I went to Houston, Texas, to visit my son and daughter-in-law and had the privilege of visiting NASA’s Johnson Space Center. A cool T-shirt in the gift shop had a quote from the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking: “Intelligence is the Ability to Adapt to Change” spelled out in cryptic…
Every month, I try to highlight what makes our Electric Cooperatives great and unique; we refer to that as “The Cooperative Difference.” This month’s magazine focuses on farm families, and I can’t think of anything that truly sets cooperatives apart from other business models than our focus on family. The…