March Madness is upon us. And I don’t think it’s all just about a round orange ball. Mother Nature seems angry also. I was raised in northwest Kansas, and the winds we have...

IsmsOf all the “isms” upon earth realism is best.Since Hiroshima-Nagasaki-1945, it seems “Katy bar the door” is no longer effective.Men move mountains. God moves universes....

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eye witness. ~ Mark Twain.In a marriage understanding when your wife says WHAT is not because she didn’t hear you. She is...

Friday night we attended Wade’s jamboree games at Miller. They played two short games. Kim and I hit the car and parked where we could watch. It was cold and the wind...

Birthdays: March 29th-Kim Suniga, Riley Watson 14, Rylend Hacker 21, Payton Sproat 26, LaDonna Hall 73, Rick Frieze 75 and Barbara Friend 91; 30th-Regina Turner, Zaylor...

Are you proud of your hometown? Do you still live there, or have you moved far away? What about the people that live where you hail from? Are they proud of you and you of...

I am a book reader. I read every chance I get, even when I know there’s something else that I should probably be doing. I usually have a couple of books that I am reading...

Standing in The ShadeQuietly put, in life you must be a shade above, a furlong ahead. Certainly you must be a shade above as you stand under an old oak tree in Dade County...

Dade County man says, “It is starting to smell like lake water, beer and questionable decisions outside.”Buying eggs on the street and weed in the stores. The times are a...

Behind again. March brings Daylight savings, St. Patrick Day, Spring begins (thank you God), Doctor's Day. Happy birthday to brother-in-law Don Coble,  my Kim, great-nephew...

Birthdays: March 22nd-Denise McPhail, Brett Dorsett 29 and Tiffany Lewis 42; 23rd-Audi Latimer 13, Matt Reid 18, Leslie Cunningham 40, Gina Langston 42, Steve Shepard 59,...

Our one room schoolhouse teacher mother was one I would consider a virtuous woman. Her ability to empathize while maintaining the professionalism and prudence allowed her...

SilenceDo you ever think upon silence?I will tell you about it.Silence hears every raindrop fallIt hears all the news saidIt stills the nightIt calms the frightened heartIt...

I have been going through the many spiral notebooks where I keep track of things, write down thoughts and feelings, record details from phone calls, and play hangman with...

Do you remember when your knees were named left and right instead of good and bad?If you are in it to your ears, keep your mouth shut.Missouri State Representative Ann...