Three people brought one message. Or did they? There is nothing earth-shaking in my story for today. In this land of story-tellers, you usually expect a laugh or at least a smile. Less often is a story told to teach or niggle your mind into tho...
Hair today doesn't always mean gone tomorrow All of us are mammals. How do I know? Humans have hair. Only mammals have hair. Like that. But growing hair isn’t what makes you a mammal. First, you have to have a vertebra, be warm-blooded, and i...
Well-written good ideas aren't old after 30 years Thirty years is a long time. Except when age doesn’t matter. That’s about how long ago I belonged to a book club that knew how to do two things right, offer very good reading bound in paper. QPBC...
I may not ever understand how women think I will probably never understand the way women think; it’s too hard. It may be too hard for you too, and if you try you will only hurt yourself. Unless you are a woman, in which case, you may be sm...
Wanted to lease: an old lighthouse, anywhere The phone rang way too early one morning, around 3:00 a.m. Witching hour it’s sometimes called, a time when strange things can menace us and when we are least prepared.
I let it ring a couple of ti...
How to act when you really want to feel rich I am rich. More accurately, I feel rich, and have started acting differently. Maybe you can start acting differently too.
I’m writing to share insights on human behavior, or maybe to justify my ...
A dream of long ago and a special day in April Central Kansas during one of my early years there. It was 1969, late winter or early spring. Both mean “cold.” Because winters there aren’t much fun, folks prefer the second expression because it ...
Post 9/11: Where in the world do we belong? Ten years ago last Sunday, something happened in our country, to our country and to us, the people of this land. Since there has been non-stop coverage, last Sunday and beyond, I won’t repeat the d...
Bad weather needs good ways to say when it's coming The Great Plains is known for its beautiful sunrises and sunsets, especially when there is a little dust in the atmosphere, or even smoke from a faraway range fire. While we’re painting this pictu...
Seeing President Herbert Hoover in a better light Our country is facing tough economic times. That’s not news. What will be news is how we overcame our present crisis. We shouldn’t want our descendants to read how we spent our time and resources...
A little wooden cross by the side of the road Between two Midwestern farming communities stretched a sparsely traveled blacktop road. It was completely straight, except where a county line required an S curve to compensate for an error in th...
Abbeville man found in chimney will be buried Sunday An Abbeville man who apparently died and remained in the narrow, brick chimney of a Abbeville bank for 27 years will be laid to rest at a weekend funeral.
Decades after Robert Schexnider las...
