You think it’s hot here?
GateHouse News Service As the nation deals with a long heat wave, we do well to be grateful for our planet, placed where it is in a solar system multiple billions of miles wide. We could be on Mercur…
July 2012
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Sum-sum-summertime!
My husband and I have been catching some advertising on TV that has us scratching our heads. The ads are for a well-known outdoor-recreation merchandiser of colossal proportions, touting their store…
My Kingdom for a Voice
A Midwestern upbringing can be a challenge to overcome. Girls of my era were primarily raised to be amiable and polite at all costs, and there’s not much wrong with that except that sometimes you ne…
The Daily Special
My maternal grandparents met when my grandfather, just home from the front during WWI, having fudged on his age in order to enlist, walked into the mercantile store in a tiny southwest Kansas town an…
Vote “Yes” on NO
Growing up in rural southwest Kansas had its advantages. Life seemed pretty simple, especially in retrospect; we had everything we needed, if not all we wanted; the weather was mostly friendly, if y…
The Grandparent Game
I’ve been thinking about my grandparents this morning, which if you’ve been following this blog to any extent is clearly nothing new. Not everyone gets to grow up with grandparents, so it’s sligh…
Carl Milton Lundin
Carl Milton Lundin, 96, died Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Dodge City.
Services will be held at a later date. More information is available at www.zieglerfuneralchapel.co…