Today's Features

March Madness has come and gone. A new NCAA basketball champion has been crowned. Unfortunately for those of us who live in Kentucky, the Kentucky Wildcats came close but did not win the title. Every NCAA basketball tournament provides some lessons to be learned about performing on the biggest basketball stage.

Under the watchful eye of Courtney Ballard, the three children draw horizontal lines on the inside of the circle they created with colored Sharpies, designating the head of what will be a ladybug.

“It looks like a window,” Davis VanZant, 6, said.

“Good job, Emily,” Ballard tells 4-year-old Emily Bach, who draws eyes on her ladybug while beside her Mason Baldwin, 5, carefully adds color to his work.

Ballard was in fiddlesticks, a children’s store in Elizabethtown, conducting Sprout Studio, an art class for children.

The March 14 meeting of the Radcliff Woman’s Club was showered with blessings. The group made their meeting very special by sponsoring a shower for SpringHaven Domestic Violence Program.

Members arrived at the meeting loaded with items which had been requested by project coordinator Josette Roush. They included diapers of all sizes, baby wipes, toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, paper plates, hygiene products, towels and bleach.

As I lay in bed listening to my home groan with the gusts of wind that pressed against it, I had to remind myself it’s that time of year.

Along with spring come the rain, wind and threat of severe weather.

I’d like to think I’ve gotten used to it after all these years, but, in truth, I think the reverse is actually true.

The more I’ve learned things over the years, the easier it is for my mind to reel with possibilities.