Tia Talk
Tia Irish is livin' and learnin' as a Staff Writer for the Greene County Daily World. She can be reached at irishgcdw@gmail.com.
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Be good, and goodbye
Posted Friday, May 14, 2021, at 11:38 AMI’m not sure if there’s something wrong with me, but I have started writing this column twice. Each time I’ve been struck with a lightheaded malaise, all thought dissipating into a blinding whiteness. I know I’m going to miss this... -
It’s made of people
Posted Friday, April 16, 2021, at 12:00 AMHaving just succumbed to the COVID vaccine, I guess you could say I feel a tad strange. Although it may be psychosomatic, I’m feeling pensive and so, I think I may just see where this reflection takes me in case I have an allergic reaction, keel over, my life flashes before my eyes and this column is the last anyone hears from me. ... -
Gardening tip 117 (not really)
Posted Friday, April 2, 2021, at 12:55 PMSo spring has sprung and we’ve been planting like maniacs- 21 plants in two days, a plantstravaganza, if you will. It would have been 22 but I threw one away to protect the neighborhood cats and my conscience. I had ordered a beautiful “Sarah” flowering mountain laurel with the most brilliant coral blooms in odd little boxy- headed shapes. ... -
Doggone it; for Miracle the wonder dog
Posted Friday, March 12, 2021, at 10:23 AMI almost got a dog this week- an adorable, yet emaciated Boston terrier named Miracle. I think I would have renamed her Manson, as a nod to her heterochromia- one large pale blue and one brown eye. Her big awesome buggy peepers were the first thing I noticed about her. ...