Ann Silverthorn

In June of 2015, I visited the other Nashville. That is—Nashville, Indiana, also known as Little Nashville. Population: ~1,000. If I could, I would move there. Well, I can’t move there, but I definitely plan to go back, again and again. Luckily, I have offspring who will be at Indiana University for at least four…

When I was a kid, I was a voracious reader. Luckily, we lived near a library. My trips to the library often employed a wagon to ferry my borrowings home. Once, my mother walked by me in the living room as I turned a last page and said, “You didn’t read that whole book already,…

I’ve been attending Peter Mayer concerts for more than a decade. Peter, a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, tours with his own people whenever he’s not busy with Buffett. He usually comes to my town at Christmastime for his Stars & Promises shows, but recently, he played an intimate concert in the Bayfront Sheraton ballroom in Erie, PA. Only four musicians…

Little Nora, the feisty, sweet, and sometimes surly Cairn terrier we rescued nearly four years ago, who was diagnosed with canine Cushing’s disease a couple of months ago, has a new challenge. Blindness. This newest malady might be related to Nora’s Cushing’s. The vets don’t know. They ruled out obvious causes, such as high-blood pressure, diabetes, and glaucoma. While…

If you wear contact lenses, and you’ve traveled by air, you’ve probably made an unnecessary shopping trip looking for contact-lens solution in a bottle smaller than 3.4 ounces. At the store, you probably grew frustrated, because most small bottles of contact-lens solution contain four ounces. Here are seven bits about contact-lens solution in your carry-on…

I just became a member of the grandmother club. This magical experience brings back many memories of my own babies, and it seems like just yesterday that we were preparing our nursery for the first time. My grandchild’s home is filled with baby gear that would have seemed otherworldly, when I had my own children…

Do you like the feeling of cool, refreshing water on your skin and the sights and sounds of nature all round you? You might like the list of seven swimming holes, I found in the June 2015 Better Homes & Gardens (pg. 153). Here they are: 1. Ohiopyle State Park, PA I love that this place was…

Our Cairn Terrier rescue, Nora, went blind in July of 2015. At the time, she had just been diagnosed with Cushing’s Disease. She was in such bad shape that it didn’t seem feasible to take her to a veterinary ophthalmologist in Pittsburgh, when we didn’t think she’d be with us for much longer. A year later, Nora is still…

You could exhaust yourself trying to follow every health trend that people are talking about today. Better Homes & Gardens ran a good article in its March 2015 edition that covers some of the hottest health trends, “What’s the Deal With. . .?” I’ve picked out the seven most-interesting food trends to share with you today. Here goes:…

The May 2015 Motorist from AAA contains an article on car batteries and the “electrifying developments” that are taking place in the automotive-battery industry. Here are seven bits of info about car batteries you might be interested in knowing. There you have it. Seven bits of information about car batteries. If you’d like to know more about AGM batteries,…