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  (Playground in front, snack bar/projection room   middle, parking all around the snack bar.)               I grew up going to drive-in movies. When I was between 2...

"DEATH IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS. NO MAN - NO PROBLEM." Joseph Stalin   Just think about how horrible the statement from Stalin is and yet without...

Faithful readers, last week I left you toward the middle of the Old Boars’ Tour of Wabaunsee County on rural roads. My ol’ Missouri...

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...

"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...