Empty Nest

We put Buddy, our dog, on The Green Bean Diet.  He was getting quite obese and we had to do something about it for his health.  I don't allow obesity in myself, I don't allow it in our …

I'm humbled as well as flattered to be invited to my hometown of Monroe for a “Meet the Author and Book Signing.”  It will be at the Monroe Public Library, 416 Buchanan St, on …

They pray every morning to bring them God encounters.  Thomas and Carole-Anne Elliott are Canadians.  In their fifties, they are floating down the Mississippi River on a sailboat.  …

Curt Petersen's wife, Emma, shouted, “Curt, Curt, are you alright?” “Yeah,” Curt groaned.  “Call an ambulance.” When the life-flight helicopter landed, the life-flight nurse asked, “Mr. Petersen, on a scale of one-to-ten, with ten being the worst, how much pain are you in?”

Curtis Giberson from Hillsboro studied the '54 Chevy he saw on an on-line farm auction.  The picture wasn't very good.  The caption read, “Only 32,400 …

The bathroom floors in the Hotel Manning are heated, at least in the “Old Part” of the hotel.  I had gotten up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and was …

Famed international French artist Cecile Houel (pronounced “Well”) is honored, pleased and excited.  Tourists aboard a Viking River Cruise will be visiting her art studio on …

It's going to the top!  “Task Force IED”, my third book, is going to the top of the best seller lists.  Amazon has it rated at five stars.  Unlike my first two book that …

Drive down Main Street of Mediapolis and there's nothing mediocre about this little Iowa town, population 2118.  The street is lined with flowers—petunias, impatiens, Boston ferns, …

Spenser Remick, formerly of Salem, is 35-years old, weighs 320 lbs ±, is 6'3” tall and is well on his way to being a competitor at the World's Strongest Man contest.  …

We have a yellow trumpet vine.  Not the standard orange trumpet vine that you see a lot of, but yellow. There was a huge growth of it just west of New London a few years ago.  It was …

Ginnie and I went to Yellowstone again this year for vacation.  Last year we were there and saw actual wolves in the wild feeding on a bison carcass.  Not only that, but we were treated to …

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