Don't taunt, trash talk or jeer.  It's never worked for me, in fact it usually backfires.  I found the best approach, especially in sports, when someone trash talked me, was to just be …

Bob used to be a fireman for the City of Denver back in the fifties and sixties.  It was men only then.  He said that while on duty, they would get so drunk that he would actually pass out …

A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, often camouflaged, normally equipped with loopholes through which defenders can fire weapons, like on the beaches of Normandy.  …

Like thieves in the night, Groundhogs were our enemy when growing up on the Maple Hill farm west of Monroe.  Those little pigs dug tunnels around the foundations of farm buildings and made quite a …

The old priest asked me how I was doing.  I had almost died of alcoholism a few short weeks before.  I fell through the glass top of my coffee table, drunk, cut myself up like a hog ready …

The first full moon in 2025 arrived on Monday, January 13 th at 6:22 p.m., CST.  It is called the Wolf Moon, because wolves were wont to prowl and howl (“ululate,”) on cold January …

I'm the last of eight children, i.e. the baby of the family, and I was spoiled.  I didn't realize it at the time, but as I look back now through the lens of a father and grandfather, I was …

The great news on December 4 th , I'm cancer free!  It was the day of my 4 th infusion with the immunotherapy drug, Keytruda.  The first thing on the agenda was a full-body PET/CAT …

Growing up on the Maple Hill Farm west of Monroe, we always had a few chickens for eggs, a steer and a pig or two for meat, and, the year I'm thinking of, one tom turkey.  I don't know how we …

Every year in late October, the postcards go out inviting Henry County Veterans and their spouse or significant other to a free Sunday night dinner at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mt. …

Martha Wiley of Mt. Pleasant loves teaching - with over 30 years of teaching advanced math, physics, calculus, statistics, trigonometry, engineering and programming at the high school, and teacher …

In recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, we're often not aware of how much we are changing until we see a difference in how others react to us.  This is a story of my friend Steve, and …