Worthy to Print Column | Happy New Year
I wonāt ask you about how your New Year is or will be. Shoot, I donāt think anyone is enjoying our holidays when you think about how many of our loved ones have been lost to the pandemic.
I have told you that I came...
Funny Papers Again Column | By Whatever Name You Please, He Has Returned
I was reading about the origins of Christmas and the various ways the day is celebrated around the world. It is a day with a history that originally involved more than a few countries and belief systems. What we know today as Christmas has...
Funny Papers Again Column | Solstice, Schmolstice ā¦ Give Me a Sunny Equinox Any Day
I loathe the 24 hours of Dec. 21-22, 2021. And it has nothing to do with this year. I hate Dec. 21 every year and have since before I knew the whole planetary explanation of why I detest the day. (Reason is because the...
Guest Column | Successes Lead to Bright Future for Rural Health Care
As we gather during the holidays and bid farewell to another year under the shadow of the pandemic, I wanted to shine a light on all the good I see around me every day.
As I close out my second year as Mee Memorial Healthcare...
Worthy to Print Column | Finding the Perfect Gift
I want to tell you āMerry Christmasā and send out the love of my family and our wishes that you and your family enjoy the wonderful holiday, where we all give thanks for the Sacrificed Son that proves that God has forgiveness in his...
Funny Papers Again Column | Note to Founding Fathers: āYou Didnāt See This Coming, Did You?ā
Itās 3:17 a.m. early Wednesday morning, nine hours before deadline for this column and I havenāt 1,000 cohesive words anywhere in my head: not a scintilla of theme. This is not often the case when offering this column on a weekly basis (or is...
Worthy to Print Column | A Day in My Life
Now, where was Iā¦ Dick pulled up to me on the highway and told me to put it second gear and āGet on it!ā So I slipped it up a gear and took off. I didnāt go very far because I saw a state...
Window on the World Column | Find Your Passion
āWhy do you like it so much?ā he asked. You could ask a lot of people that same question and they wouldnāt be stumped the way I was. I thought back to the beginning of the passion, the birth of my new hobby. My...
Funny Papers Again Column | Missouri and Florida: Never the Twain Shall Meet?
I have always enjoyed words and how they are used, but as I have not kept up on the grammatical, I frankly admit to longer being able to accurately describe, or recognize in use, the dangling participle or the gerund, nor would I be...
Worthy to Print Column | The Good Ones Always Leave Early
In 1940, American author Ernest Hemingway wrote a book named āFor Whom the Bell Tolls.ā It wasnāt his best book, but it had a few passages that reminded me this past week that he certainly had a way with words. The title of the...