http://www.dailyitem.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:01:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_135090159.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_135090159.html I don’t know who coined the phrase “Money can’t buy happiness,” but I’m not buying it. Let me prove them wrong. Give me the money. Tue, 06 May 2008 08:54:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_127085547.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_127085547.html If Sunbury doesn’t toot its own horn, who will? Mayor Jesse Woodring recently acknowledged that the city suffers from an image problem. Part of the problem, he said, is the city doesn’t market itself. Mon, 05 May 2008 09:28:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_126073054.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_126073054.html Danville senior Brian Bastian may be missing his calling. When he quipped about tidbits from the life of Geisinger CEO and President Dr. Glenn Steele Jr. at a Distinguished Citizen Award dinner recently, Steele took it all in stride. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:06:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_118234555.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_118234555.html The greatest murder mystery of all time will not be written, I'm very sorry to say, because the alarm clock went off just as I was being lauded for authoring it. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:26:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_105011524.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_105011524.html Cindy O. Herman column: Maybe it was the Plymouth, stalling at intersections even when you had one foot on the brake and one on the gas. Maybe that's why I never developed a love for cars. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:11:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_098071136.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_098071136.html What we need are some good parenting classes, but not the usual “Understanding the Adolescent Mind” kind of stuff — adolescents don’t want us to understand their minds. No, what we need is some help with the skills no one dreams they’ll be needing. Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:31:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_091113148.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_091113148.html For crying out loud. Did you hear about the urinal trouble in New Zealand?“Edward Aldridge, 47, punched his victim twice after he used the urinal next to him in a pub in Christchurch,” Anova.com explained. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:52:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_077075432.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_077075432.html St. Patrick was a good man, to be sure. And that bit of ridding Ireland of snakes, now, that’s something. You can’t begrudge him his day. But there are some other lands — Poland, a personal favorite, comes to mind — with equally upstanding patron saints who deserve the same honor as good St. Patty. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_035082737.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_035082737.html I think it’d be neat to peek in on a family — OK, spy on them — during dinner. What do they talk about? How do they relate to one another? Wanna spy on my family? Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:02:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_028000122.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_028000122.html In second grade, Sister Flavia always chose one lucky student to take the attendance report to Sister Emil, the principal of St. Stanislaus Elementary, and one day that lucky duck was me. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:24:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_014000051.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_014000051.html Scientists have been trying for years to crack the DNA code, to discover the essence of what makes us human. I think they're overlooking the obvious. Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:33:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_006231635.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_006231635.html We can't complain about technology because most of us don't really understand it. I know that, by some miracle of technology, my voice is carried through wires to someone else's ear, but when that miracle of technology fails, I have no idea why. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_354105119.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_354105119.html I shall never forget the first time I danced with a star. It was in the Danville Middle School gym and the star was Wil-Orion’s Premier Edition or Cooper. From the time he arrived from Minnesota, my black-and-white dance partner had incredible balance and loved to stand and do a few steps before dinner was served. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:22:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_343233146.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_343233146.html When I was engaged, I read a really nice quote by Kahlil Gibran that said, in part, "Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you." Isn't that a beautiful sentiment? Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:17:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_336230212.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0120_local_columns/local_story_336230212.html I haven't seen a live gymnastics meet since my college days, unless you count the action in a public bathroom. It doesn't matter whether it's labeled with a hen, a cowgirl, a frilly bonnet or the official silhouette of a woman in a dress, we all know it's a restroom, and it's crawling with germs.