http://www.niagara-gazette.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:21:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_021172155.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_021172155.html Okay, so you weren’t born into the greatest family, you’ve had to struggle for every earned fifty cents, and when you get up in the morning, the first words out of your vulgar tasting mouth are, “If I’m part of some Divine Plan, God sure must have some sense of humor.” So laugh, He does. Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:10:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_007151110.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_007151110.html Imagine iPods hangin’ out of ears, greasy chips and soda smeared all over young faces, cell phones sandwiched between book pages and the camera part of the phone aimed at your face — get the picture? Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:55:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_303125621.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_303125621.html If I’m to interest and embrace all types of readers from diverse backgrounds and with different desires, I must stick my pen out there and write about sensitive subjects that might make some people squirm, wince and even deny that such things exist. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_296122055.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_296122055.html “They say the most demanding, difficult, impossible people are the very ones who need love the most,” sighed an old chum of mine who’s on her fourth divorce. Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:42:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_275124232.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_275124232.html Why waste your money seeing a sidesplitting movie, tuning into a weekly sit-com or reading a hopefully humorous weekly newspaper column, when all you have to do is surround yourself with your family’s kids who are five years old and under, and there you’ll have it — lively free entertainment. Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:52:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_268145243.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_268145243.html You just know when you’re getting ‘up there,’ and for some people, it IS a million laughs, especially if you hang around with…..well, you’ll see. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:46:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_260174742.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_260174742.html I can never remember a time when there wasn’t a Lockport Reid’s Hot Dog Stand. Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:27:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_253172757.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_253172757.html From afar she looked like you wouldn’t want to tangle up with her in some dark alley. Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:53:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_240125422.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_240125422.html It’s surprising they’re even talking to me seeing how I’ve never ONCE mentioned my husband’s family. “Are they that bad?” I’ve asked myself. Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:27:00 +0000 http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_232162822.html http://www.niagara-gazette.com/karen_white_walker/local_story_232162822.html 1950s: We came of age on the swivel of his hips and that sexy sneer that was supposed to break down all our defenses of remaining pure and innocent.