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Political storms are gathering for the coming elections, so forget that tired adage about quirky Kansas weather. It isn’t likely to change for awhile. The...

I’m writing this column in early May and you’ll be reading it at the end of the month or early June. I needed time...

          Grandma and Grandpa Becker were people of action rather than words. Not that they didn’t have much to say....

On one mid-afternoon, a woman paused in the supermarket parking lot to declare that the weather was perfectly splendid ‒ the kind of day,...

Time to bring something new to the breakfast or brunch table.  Hold it, why not enjoy the Strata for supper; add a nice salad...

My wife and I often pass the hours spent in a hunting blind by making up animal conversations for various situations. On a fall...

In a strong endorsement of politics by pulpit, the Kansas legislature approved legislation that protects faith-based adoption agencies that cite “religious beliefs” for refusing...

"THERE IS NOTHING MORE DECEPTIVE THAN AN OBVIOUS FACT." Arthur Conan Doyle   There has been a huge amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the 'privacy' or...

The closest town to mine is a well known bird sanctuary and  once a year “birders”  migrate to the big bird bash where they...

The teacher walkouts continue, with Arizona and Colorado recent additions to the statewide protests. Frustration turned to exasperation in West Virginia and then Oklahoma,...