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...

I took off and kept Krelee on Friday and we had a good day. She enjoy checking out everything in my house.Jacob and family had breakfast with us on Saturday. Jacob stayed...

Birthdays: March 15th-Anne Beuerlein, Halee Marshall, Finley Williams 2, Hayes Maynard 9, Fay Stenger 11, Rylee Reitz 12, Sadie Fare 26, Linsey Denney 30 and Sierra Feezell...

fair·ness [`fernəs] noun • impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or or discrimination:When we were children, how many times did we cry, “It’s not...

Old man winter had to give us one more cold, snowy blast, before we go into Spring! I know it was hard on those who had to be out in it trying to get to work, and doing...

In Ten YearsMy wife and I through the years have often awakened in the early morning times to ask: “I wonder what we’ll be doing ten years from now?”Time flies. Time...

The month of February sure went out in a gust of wind. From the forecast I saw when I wrote this column, March is coming in like a lamb – warm weather that will dry up the...