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There is mounting interest, especially in Lawrence, over that half-million dollar dose of heart balm for KU’s departed chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little. Although Gray-Little left the...

As this past week wrapped up I looked at one of my good friends and said:  ‘How can it be Mother’s Day next week?’ ...

The year we had to put my mother in a nursing home was really traumatic for both her and me. Ever since, Mother’s Day...

         Part cultural icon and part invasive nuisance, tumbleweeds have an intriguing and tangled history. You know, tumbleweeds -- those twisted...

I'm not one of those greenies who believes that humans are a cancerous growth destroying the planet, but I'll admit it's getting a little...

  It was Saturday afternoon several years ago, and Joyce and I were snug in our blind, hoping to harvest her spring turkey. We had...

Former astronaut Captain Scott Kelly drew schools from around the state to the Hutchinson Sports Arena on April 17, 2018. Students and spectators anxiously...

The Kansas Legislature has again revealed an inept leadership, a cabal that each year seeks another miracle of failure. Of the many critical issues that confronted...

"REMEMBER HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE TO EACH OTHER." Marcie Penner   I attended a family gathering. It was not anyone who is related to me. It is...

Faithful readers, I don’t want to bore you with a personal travelogue, so if you’re not interested in reading about my experiences on a...