Conversations

One of my favorite lines from the movie, “You’ve Got Mail” by Nora Ephron was sent in an email by the character Joe Fox played by Tom Hanks to Kathleen Kelly performed by actress Meg Ryan. If you’re not familiar with the 1998 movie, the pair met in a chatroom and fell in love via the Internet. Joe wrote to Kathleen, “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” If anyone should ever tell you that there is no power in the written word, they’ve never been touched by a song, prose, a moving eulogy, rousing political speech, sermon, book or newspaper column. If you’ve ever received a love note, then you know the thrill that writing can bring to a lovesick heart.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 I tell you right now, I just got right mad about the less than half-hour Quorum Court meeting held Monday.

The best teachers have a way of inspiring us to become different people. Teaching is more complex than simply distributing knowledge.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Now it seems that a person can’t watch baseball in mixed company without being embarrassed.

For those of us watching the 2024 election cycle ramp up with its cast of characters, speculation, and propaganda, do you ever find yourself humming the chorus of the Stealers Wheel song, “Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right. Here I am, stuck in the middle with you” ?

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 I spent a large portion of last weekend “putting up” sweet corn.

To be hopeful in the midst of corrupt times is to be brave. There are agendas being set in motion that threaten the American way of life.

I went to two class reunions on Tuesday night of last week, one for 1940 graduates, the group five years ahead of my class and one for the class of 1950, who were five years behind us. I was just going to run in and out and take a picture or two, but it didn’t work out that way. There were too many folks I wanted to see at each of the reunions.

When I see or hear people trying to bully others into silence on the political issues at hand, I think that people have forgotten what freedom means. Our country’s founders often expressed their beliefs with passion and intensity.

For your reading enjoyment, we continue to publish Rambling Vines by the late Marylea Vines as she recalls events and names of Corning folks from many years ago. We are currently in the year 1990 Some of us have had a brainstorm… we think it would be neat for everyone to wear their red 4th of July teeshirt on Tuesday before the 4th.