Finally, I caved in and was semi-convinced by my pal Lisa Corbin that it might be a good idea. Bless the people at Blue Cedar ...

Margot Russell, a local columnist who recently wrote a book of a collection of her columns, titled “Back to the Lake”. Submitted photo Local columnist Margot Russell has turned a collection of her ...

"The honeymoon was over for newlyweds Sam McMullin and Mazie Lightfoot, when Sam died at the couple's home the morning Nov. 15, 1946," the late Kathy Jordan wrote in a history column for The Daily ...

Like a lot of things during the pandemic, my next book of columns, which I planned to compile in 2020, fell by the wayside. There were other things on my mind. But finally it’s done and out into the ...

After Capt. Levi Coman’s letter from Camp Shiloh, dated May 2, 1862, there is three weeks where no letters exist. Fortunately, Brevet Maj. Charles Dana Miller’s book, “The Struggle for the Life of the ...

I didn’t have a library to visit growing up except at my school, and you can bet I read every single book available to me in that library — well, not “Gulliver’s Travels.” I tried, but it was just far ...

Last week I held my seventh book in my grubby little hands. Writing the story of Dr. John Matsushima has been the honor of my career. It will be thrilling to see some of the 50,000 students ...

Lately, I’ve become entirely too fascinated with how the physical manifestation of a thing affects our understanding about that thing. By that, I mean something like this — how does the physical ...

Editor’s note: Opinions expressed by columnists are solely the opinion of that person and not necessarily the Daily Journal. I’ve always been a fan of romance books, but the years during and after the ...

Robert Wolf, more commonly and affectionately known as Bob, is no longer a kid, and hasn’t been for some time. He has long had white hair and a white beard, and his eyesight isn’t what it used to be.

With Americans’ free speech threatened by politicians’ bluster and federal agents swarming the region, welcome to Banned Books Week. Is there a better time to mark the annual observance of censorship ...