Final thoughts for 2025. Thanks for reading.I am from the 1960s. I still want a menu I can hold, not a code I can scan.Late Christmas thoughts: Who misses Gibson Hardware,...

January brings Happy New Year 2026. May you all be richly blessed with good health, and happiness. You can't buy those things. Happy birthday to great niece Carter May...

Birthdays: January 3rd-Angie Garoutte, Ila Freeze 7, Sherry Terrell 70, Paul Weis 71 and Ron Dinges 89; 4th-Kolten Duncan 13, Blake Hosman 24, Lois Huchteman 66 and Betty...

For posterity, I would like to note that the temperature in southwest Missouri on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2025 broke a previous 136-year record high. So much for a...

Like most folks I never really thought about the entirety of our national anthem until recently.   Today there are those who would replace it with who knows what.   Have...

What a busy time of the year and we make it harder on ourselves as well.On Friday night the Greenfield Wildcats traveled to Ash Grove and they took a loss. Kim went to the...

Birthdays: December 27th-John Barger, Weston Holcomb 1, Quincee Sekscinski 7, Dillion Watson 12, Lacey Clark 14, Maci Montgomery 21 and Dominic Bergthold 22; 28th-Henry...

Christmas is a magical time. The colorful lights, sounds of snow crunching, singingChristmas carols, shining tinsel creating sparkles reflecting in the eyes of thosewho...

December brings Merry Christmas. Happy birthday to my favorite son-in-law Asa Bowles, great nephew Blaine Willard, niece Lauren Jones, great-niece Kinsley Vandegrift. Happy...

It’s less than three weeks until Christmas. Time sure does fly by, and the more trips I make around the sun, the faster it seems to spin. With a cat added to our household,...

Birthdays: December 13th-Penny Freeze, Jean Preston, Billy Thomas, Dalton Jones 30, Matt Darst 43 and sister-in-law Robbie Hollis 73; 14th-Jayd Forst 26, Mary Westfall 32...

Remember the days of having to write 100 times, “I will not talk in class. I will not talk in class. I will not talk in class.”I have to admit that I had to write a few...

Where’s My BritchesA  mishap? Sounds phony? Doesn’t it? Yet a single mishap can be true. How do I know this? I fell from bed last night into a grand mishap. My poor...

December can be the busiest month of year with school programs, church programs, ball games, parades, taxes to pay, filing for local offices plus Christmas...

This time of year is thankfully, blessed and also, sad and lonely as we have one missing at the table of our life.Got our bathroom up and running again. Kim got my new...