Category: Editorials

On May 8, I graduated summa cum laude from North Florida College with an Associate of Arts. My time at NFC was brief but breezy.  NFC is a true example of a…

This past weekend, I was scheduled to showcase my art as a vendor at the Suwannee County Wildflower Festival. I signed up months ago, and have spent these few weeks steadily building…

Heather Ainsley  ECB Publishing, Inc. Last Monday, I took Ali-cat to the vet. She had been throwing up a lot, including once where her emesis contained blood. Additionally, she was decidedly not…

Around three and a half years ago, an elderly, thin, feral cat approached me as I was eating lunch outside the newspaper office, and she captured a piece of me. For two…

There’s a lot of things we take for granted. Wonderful people, places, experiences and opportunities we have and love can start feeling like just an routine part of life when we engage…

When someone passes away, it is common to re-live the final moments you spent with them, mulling them over in your mind until every moment is immortalized forever, as if preserving the…

The other day, I was changing in my room when I spied a little thief at the bird feeder I keep on the balcony. I say thief in loose terms, only because…

As I have made more and more trips around that big yellow bag of gas in the sky, I have come to realize that the only thing you can truly predict about…

Sometimes I wonder if the sentimental part of me is perennial, because it always seems to come back to life around the time the flowers start blooming. This year, the rush of…

I came across an insightful quote the other day, by a man named Mario Quintana, and it went like this: “The secret is not to chase butterflies, it’s to take care of…

I was hopeful that our peaceful community would escape gang activity. But I was wrong. The Tren de BlueJay have hit town. They all arrive at once. The first sign of the…

This weekend, I was honored to be invited to witness the union of two of my friends, as they entered into a new chapter of their relationship. It was a beautiful wedding,…

Since starting as a writer for ECB Publishing, Inc. in September 2021, I’ve really enjoyed how the job takes me out into our community, both the public spaces and the backroad nooks….

I recently saw something that immediately made me stop and think. That may not seem all that significant. Many things make me stop, not as many make me think while I am…

Life can be absolutely bitter sometimes. This was my experience last week when we had to bury Tom, an outdoor cat we have cared for for years. I struggled to wrap my…

I consider myself to be a pretty good driver. I have been in my fair share of “fender benders” and a couple of those did result in totaled vehicles, but only one…

Today is Ash Wednesday, the Chrisitan festival that marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent lasts forty days (excluding Sundays) and commemorates Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness…

Springtime isn’t guaranteed. We tend to think of it that way, because history has shown that after winter comes the spring, but there’s no contract written up that promises this. I’ve never…

A funny thing happened on the day I set out to write a Monticello News article about CERT needing volunteers. I realized I wanted to be one. The more information I gathered…