​Needless to say, it's been a difficult second half for the Louisville Bats. With injuries mounting in Cincinnati, that spells a call for help from Louisville. The Bats have lost the likes of Zack Cozart, Todd Frazier, Dontrelle Willis, Dave Sappelt, Yonder Alonso and others off and on to the Reds. While we love to see our Bats move on to the Big Leagues, it's tough watching the struggles that tend to ensue.

If there was anything good about the 70‘s,80’s and 90’s, it was the birth of the mass availability of video games (Underoos, Farrah Fawcett hair and Schoolhouse Rock also deserve mention). I, myself, spent many hours in the quest to defeat Ms. Pac man, Donkey Kong and Pitfall, to name a few. I missed out on most of the video game systems and games the first time around because my dad was cheap (sorry Dad) and I was, and still am, a book worm.

Most of you have probably read Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting, a pre-teen novel (before they were overrun with pouting vampires) that gently reveals mortality, its pains and its pleasures. In the novel, heroine Whitney must decide whether or not to join the Tuck clan, which is stuck in perpetual life after haphazardly drinking from the fountain of youth.

   While some congressmen have recently proposed cutting funds to such government departments as the Department of Education and various ones involved with art, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft will be profiling its appreciation for art education by exhibiting The Annual Scholastic Gold Key Awards Show, featuring over 200 award-winning works by local students.