Opinion
Far left women in House of Representatives
Have any four individuals in the U.S. Congress ever received so much media attention as the four newly elected congresswomen in the U.S. House of Repr...
Time to re-invent transportation
We have come quite a distance since the old horse-and-buggy days — but not quite far enough.Last year, as Debbie and I drove across the barren d...
Real-world student-debt answers
An interesting part of the political debate today is about student loan forgiveness and free tuition in the future. My perspective, after 41 years in ...
Before St. Louis, make a turn to Cahokia
I’m certain that many readers of this article have been to St. Louis, but I doubt that many of you have known about or taken the time to visit t...
To be one with technology
For the last 20 years or so, I have been aware that technology may be leaving my ability to grasp its full meaning behind. However, with each passing ...
Sugar-free twist on summer favorite
We’re home again. It was a great vacation — or do you call it a vacation while you have a full-time job of caring for five little darlings...
New holiday will hang the moon
It’s time to give our national holidays an upgrade. Let’s make July 20 Moonwalk Day.July 20 is, of course, the day that man first walked o...
Staying in tune with my spidey senses
Spiderman’s got nothing on me.I can’t shoot webs out of my wrists or send freakish villains to their doom, but when it comes to spiders I ...
We’re never too far from Galway Bay
The irrepressible nature of the sea has handed down seafaring lore, each one as curious as the next.Hank Snow, the classic country music star, was bor...
We can all learn from donkeys
It is not always just a matter of stubbornness. People sometimes get stuck in a rut or just get too comfortable and rather than moving in the right di...
