I was out of town last week when Matt Nash’s new column debuted. He’s an excellent writer, and he apparently knows which closets house the appropriate skeletons, something that surely will result in colorful rebukes from the wannabeen brigade at some point in the future.
My advice to Matt is for him to retain his wonderful sense of the absurd, and have fun. I know I do.
NASH: Our county needs new pool
As the summer unofficially comes to an end this week and parents finally send their kids back to school, I begin to reminisce about a simpler time in my life.
Growing up, one of my fondest memories was visiting the local swimming pool. The Oasis, as it was called when I was little, was just a few blocks from my house. If I cut through some houses, it was an even shorter walk across the hot asphalt of the Holy Family Church parking lot.
Later, after a complete renovation, the name was changed to honor New Albany’s Olympic swimmer, Camille Wright …