A Greater Light“Give my husband more life, please! Please give him life!”The elderly lady hovered over her stricken husband lying on a floor in a farmhouse in Missouri, it...

Happy 4th of July. A long 3-day weekend expect a big crowd on Stockton Lake.One magazine says July is watermelon month. I thought it was in August.Dear Mother Nature,...

The month of July brings us Fourth of July, Happy birthday to brother in law Tim Leeper, his son my Quinlan, great niece Addison Vandegrift, sister Lynetta Leeper, brother...

Birthdays: July 5th-Dalton Nelson 7, Trey Coose 25, Elaine Hester 30, Missy Netzer 57 and Max Marshall 83; 6th-Jerry Glenn, Izabell DeJager 14, Brayden Keathley 18, Ezra...

Every once in a while, life throws you a curveball you don’t see coming at all. That’s when you learn your ability to adapt and grow in overcoming the obstacles thrown your...

A good friend laughed at my Facebook post this week where I described giving thistle plants a chemical shower after they were deflowered. Well, that’s how we try to make...

Smirk TimeIn the universe, since there is currently something as we can clearly see, this means there has never been a state of total nothingness.If nothing once existed it...

As I was sitting in my living room June 18, 2025, thinking how amazed and blessed I was to see thirty family members and a special friend, come walking in my house at six...

Summer is here. Any red tomatoes?Grandpa tells grandson, “The Sun doesn’t shine forever. Best make your days count, own up to your mistakes and leave a trail worth...

On Friday night, Paisley's team played at Lamar and Kim and I went to Greenfield to watch Stran. Oh, the life at the ball field.On Saturday I spent most of the day outside...

Birthdays: June 28th-Perry Finley, Clark Schloesser 10, Brynlee Heiskell 12, Landon Keathley 19, Kenneth White 34 and Leon White 75; 29th-Shawna Stapp, Karen Patton,...

When searching for the original author of a quote, and find multiple souls credited for the same words, how is it determined who the originator would be? Would it be to go...

Here we are going into the second week of June 2025 and I thought about turning on the heat when I got up this morning. I wish it would stay this cool all summer, but we...

I ran across an episode of MASH that left me with the theme of my column this week. It was the one where Hawkeye was in danger of losing his eyesight and had to have...

Hope every dad had a great Father’s Day.Running is a great way to meet new people. Today I met two EMTS, two nurses and a doctor.Progress is coming along in Ash Grove,...