Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
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Ever get annoyed? I do. In fact, I’ve been getting annoyed so often lately that I’ve decided it’s time to do a little analysis to see if I can figure out why. I hope to determine if there is a geophysical reason so many things seem to annoy me or if...if I just like being peeved! A person liking to be perturbed is not such an outlandish possibility. When you are annoyed, you’re a little bit mad. Not crazy mad, not furious or enraged, just a little angered. The first thing that happens to your...
This will probably come as a big disappointment to all of you evolutionary scientists out there, but it was announced the other day by a leading expert in the field that we, humans, have evolved about as far as we are going to. That’s right – there are no huge, bulbous heads in our future. Eyes that can see through solid steel will not be forthcoming. Limbs that stretch to fantastic lengths are probably not in the offing for us. In short, we are what we are going to be. There is a reason for...
I made a New Year's resolution on Jan. 1 last year. I decided to keep it private. I didn't want anybody to know because I didn't want the added pressure of having everyone know that I wasn't keeping my New Year's resolution – that is, if I didn't keep it. It's been a year now since I made that resolution and, well, I may as well tell you...I didn't keep it. You see, my New Year's resolution was that I was going to lose weight. I didn't have any particular amount of weight in mind; I just w...
When I was a young, single man, I didn’t believe in superstition. I looked for black cats and purposely waited for them to cross my path. I walked under every leaning ladder I saw and then, just for the heck of it, I walked back under them again. I broke several mirrors. I didn’t really experience any bad luck from doing it, that is, if you don’t count the butt chewing I received for being so clumsy and careless. I always figured that if the 13th fell on a Friday, all it meant was that the weeke...
It has been a while since I've written anything. My writers' group, one stimulus for writing, has been on hold due to COVID-19 precautions and the busy holiday season. Fresh ideas for stories to tell seem to be on hold as well. I'm not sure why, but probably because of laziness. Staying home a lot used to stir the creative juices at least a little – out of boredom if nothing else. But my lifestyle has changed dramatically in the few years since I retired from the workforce. I find I just d...
When I was a young, single man, I didn’t believe in superstition. I looked for black cats and purposely waited for them to cross my path. I walked under every leaning ladder I saw and then, just for the heck of it, I walked back under them again. I broke several mirrors. I didn’t really experience any bad luck from doing it, that is, if you don’t count the butt chewing I received for being so clumsy and careless. I always figured that if the 13th fell on a Friday, all it meant was that the weeke...
I'm a "go with the flow" kind of guy – I usually row with the current, not against it. But I recently experienced something that ruined my day, and I feel the need to expound on it. You know how bread wrappers are usually closed with those little wire twisty things? You wouldn't think there is anything about them that could upset a person. Most of them are innocuous little wire ties that you simply unwind to grab a couple of pieces of bread to make your morning toast with. Here is where the t...
I am an old Western fan, meaning I'm old, and a Western fan. I'm not talking about the silent movies, in which Westerns were very popular, and I'm not talking about when the "singing" cowboy was popular after the "talkies" started. I'm talking about the shoot 'em up, horse chasin', bank robbin', cattle russlin', saloon girl kissin', barb wire fence hatin', soap opera with horses. Westerns that my Dad and I started watching in the late 1950's right on through until the 1970's. Now you cannot...
