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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Yes, difficult as that may be to grasp, it’s true.  If you live long enough, you learn a thing or two.  I’ve lived a while now and I’ve learned more than a FEW things I never really wanted to know.  …

There’s a sobering dynamic at work in the world lately – everyone around me seems to be getting older.  I went to a family funeral this week and almost without exception, every relative, friend, and …

Donna Lee Weiser, 83, passed away May 23 at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City. Funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., June 7 at Boomhower Funeral Home in Dighton KS.