But when it was going on, Dickie almost did get sick. Some of my conversations in Mexico were just as hilarious. I know just enough Spanish to be dangerous. It's no telling what I said to those people - or what they said to me. But a smile and a hug say more than words in any language.
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.
Peggy McCracken is an Enterprise writer and editor whose column appears each Tuesday. Existing things need more use Return to Menu One of the major concerns across the nation in recent years, a concern that is coming more acute with time, is the lack of affordable, decent housing. Cost factors including inflation of prices for building materials, labor, land and taxes have driven up the cost of housing while wages have lagged behind that would help people get into decent housing. It would seem there is housing in many smaller communities, housing that is deteoriating due to being vacant and unkept and prices are falling. These houses are vacant due to people leaving small towns to find work.