Today's Opinions

We have had a lot of fun with the head-shaving fundraising contest for Grant County’s Relay for Life. Losing all my hair for the sake of a few hundred dollars in donations isn’t a bad trade-off. I am told there is a 37 percent chance that it may grow back in its natural blond tint of years of yore.

I thought it was a day like any other except the world I knew was about to change forever.

That September morning, I woke up to get ready for my first class of the day at the University of Kentucky.

Still half asleep, I turned on the TV while I ate my breakfast. I had to rub my eyes to make sure what I saw on the screen was real.

A plane had flown into the World Trade Center in New York City.

As I watched the smoke bellow from the high rise, what appeared almost as a small speck in the sky came into view.

There’s an old saying, ‘there’s no friends like old friends’ and I believe this to be a true statement.

Even though, I’m 29 (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) I still “hang” out with friends from my high school days. Actually, they’re friends from elementary school. We often take trips together including one to the Virgin Islands. We also get together regularly to eat and catch up on each other’s lives. We’re making plans to go to Gatlinburg and annually go to Cumberland Lake for a girl’s weekend.