Author Ward Degler

I was enjoying a quiet afternoon reading the other day. At least I thought I…

Many of the people who knew my grandson were there. The young man took his…

There was an eerie silence when we came home. Three days earlier when we left…

There’s a lot I didn’t know about wrens. For starters, there are at least 80…

I still have emotional ties to a girl named Pat Bishop. They stretch back to…

We’ve done it for 36 years – had the family Easter celebration at our house.…

Commentary by Ward Degler We have an odd assortment of birds this year. Along with…

We celebrated my grandson’s 25th birthday last month. He brought his 2-year-old son down from…

The salt trucks are busy, dozens of them weaving through our streets scattering rock salt…

Seems like a good time to talk about snow plows, what with winter nipping at…