You're looking at Issue 13! Can you believe it? We've been doing this for a year, and I have lived to tell about it. I say that because, at this writing in mid-June, I've taken 7,000-plus photos for Shelby County Life over the past year; we've published hundreds of them.

Lucy Reynolds is a drug addict. She's only 23, but she's in jail because of her addiction. Behind bars, Reynolds is fighting another battle -- this one more personal. "I've been having a struggle between me and God for years," she said. "I feel like my only true hope is to have faith in God and he will guide me."

In the old days of the Shelbyville Horse Show, Edward "Hoppy" Bennett and his brother, R.H., would pad the audience so there wouldn't be so many gaping holes. They don't have to get friends and family to fill the box seats anymore. The show has grown so much that it's now second only to the World Championship Horse Show in Louisville. "We started with 40 box seats, and now we have over 100 and a waiting list," R.H. said.

The name synonymous with the Dorman Center has retirement in her sights. Sort of.

"Sit up straight!" "Elbows off the table!" "Use your napkin, not your shirt!" These and other admonishments are probably familiar to most of us from childhood, when we (hopefully) learned all about good manners, both at home and around other people.