Two-year-old golden retriever, Gus, preps for an afternoon snooze in the shady back doorway.

Since learning last year that Will Morgan had Ewing’s sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, the Merriman Park Elementary seventh grader has received an outpouring of support from the Lake Highlands community.

Will the Town Center ever actually start to take on the appearance of a town center, rather than that of a neighborhood recently wiped clean by an efficient tornado, with neatly paved streets and sidewalks to nowhere?

We’ve just spent the past few days cleaning a portion of our house that has accumulated stuff for the past 19 years. Among old clothes and our kids’ elementary school papers, I found a long-forgotten, weathered copy of a poem someone exposed me to when I was a 7th grader.

Buy a T-shirt to gear up for football season, or nominate a charity for recognition at local running events.