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Lightning rods – tools to tame the heavens

   For more than two centuries some perched high atop barns, silos, homes and sheds throughout much of rural America during the 19th and...

To Smoke or Not to Smoke

I make few if any new year’s resolutions, but this year I’ve decided that 2019 is the year when I will take up smoking....

How To Live A Long Time

As a child I was ALWAYS taught to respect my elders but now days it's getting harder and harder to find one. One of...

Nostalgia and Thoughts: Sleep Thieves

I guess there are sleep thieves that attack us our whole life but it seems like they are more noticeable when we reach a...

The Covered Dish: Apple Salad

When it comes to childhood memories this salad probably takes position in the top ten.  This salad was present at most family gathering.  Why,...

Laugh Tracks in the Dust

As I write this column, the good ol’ USA is suffering the indignity of a  3-week partial government shutdown because Congress and the President...

The world is my oyster

Self-absorbed. It’s all about me. I am the center of the universe. All these words come to mind when I see today’s endless stream of...

CALLING ALL CARS

“GENIUS IS ONE PERCENT INSPIRATION AND NINETY-NINE PERCENT PERSPIRATION.” Thomas A. Edison   That Tom Edison was good for a good comment, especially from a man who worked...

Kansas Has New Secretary Of Agriculture

Citing his 38-year career with the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA), incoming governor Laura Kelly announced Mike Beam as her choice to lead the Kansas...

Be Nice

People the world over use their fingers to communicate; mostly in rude ways. Hip teenagers and Italians couldn’t communicate if they had to wear...
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