Lifestyle

By Hannah Webster

A lot of people talk about having not only a mission in life but one informed by values like faith, family and community. Joe Lohmeyer is an example of someone who follows through on that.

Centerpiece

I browsed through my stash of greeting cards earlier this month, hunting for notecards appropriate for writing Christmas thank-you’s. All I could find were a few glitter-covered cards that recipients never appreciate. Once they’re opened, glitter flies everywhere and the clean-up is a bear. I pitched the glitter-bombs and rummaged through another cabinet, looking for one particular cardboard box. I finally found it, pushed it to the back of a shelf.

The annual Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology photo contest has begun.

After a long and successful acting career, Jill Tasker returned to her native Columbus to be with her mother, who was beginning to show signs of dementia. Bringing joy and vitality to her mother in her last years inspired Tasker to begin a project of love centered on reawakening dementia patients’ inner spark. So far, she’s enlisted a variety of people to help with this endeavor, including other talented actors and a playwright.

Dribble, pass, shoot! In Indiana, basketball season is gearing up and will keep us entertained (and cussing) during the long gray winter months ahead. For Prime Timers who can’t escape to Florida, there’s always the Indiana Hoosiers, the Purdue Boilermakers and local high school basketball games to help make winter tolerable.

If you ask Ed Krome what the main drive of his overall engagement with the world throughout his life has been, he will readily answer, “Two things: curiosity and fun.”

Have you had go-go dreams? A few years ago, a friend and her husband shared advice with me from their financial guru. Their moneyman recommended that she and her husband enjoy their retirement “go-go” years because “One day, your go-go years will turn into no-go years. Whatever you want to do, do it now,” he said, “before you reach those no-go years.”

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — For 400 years, Indigenous North Americans flocked to a group of ceremonial sites in what is present-day Ohio to celebrate their culture and honor their dead. On Saturday, the sheer magnitude of the ancient Hopewell culture’s reach was lifted up as enticement to a new set of visitors from around the world.