This month is an anniversary of sorts for me. This month, I observe the fifth anniversary of writing a weekly column for The Citizen newspapers. I have missed only two weeks, so, I figure that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 258 articles, give or take one or two.

Passenger participation making air travel safe for law-abiding citizens
By MONROE ROARK
mroark@thecitizennews.com

I've always found a quick post-holiday getaway to be helpful in making it through the remainder of a potentially depressing winter without going bonkers. To that end, my wife and I will leave our son in the capable hands of his grandparents for three days and spend the second weekend of January in sunny south Florida.

The joys and perils of Christmas cookies and bathtub-thawed turkeys
By Rick Ryckeley
Fayette County Fire & Emergency Services

Well it finally happened to me at 43 I have a pudge. One of my wife's friends at work just had open heart surgery, and now we have to eat healthy. We cut down eating red meat, chicken, and pork to once a week and some form of pasta the rest of the time. (Do you know they can make pasta into any shape they want to?)

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