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Perhaps my favorite place to relax is my front porch. It’s my mental safe haven.
Daylight saving time ends this Sunday. Early Sunday morning, most of the United States will turn the clock back one hour and revert to winter time.
Here we go again. There’s a serious movement afoot to ban certain books from getting into the hands of schoolchildren.
Fifty years is a long time any way you look at it. When you say half a century, 50 years seems even longer.
A woman who attended the same church our family did knew I was a news reporter. In a lame attempt to impress me or to show she was well-read and informed, the woman told me she got her news from the St. Joseph News-Press’ “It’s Your Call” column.
Every married couple knows the heady, intoxicating feeling of the wedding and honeymoon doesn’t last forever.
October is LGBT History Month. That might come as a surprise to some who think homosexuality is a modern invention, but it’s been a part of our history for centuries.
Today marks the first day of autumn, the end of summer in the northern hemisphere and the beginning of a season of harvest rich in folklore and sensory delights.
Many times in this column I’ve written about the joys and adventures of my childhood and it registers with others from my generation.
When I read earlier this week that some Missouri schools are bringing back corporal punishment, it brought back a rush of memories of my own and others’ experiences with paddling, strapping and spanking in school.
When we adults think of nostalgia and nostalgic moments, it comes from things long ago in our childhood and youth. The memory may be a little fuzzy and embellished with Hallmark sentimentality, but it’s our believed experience nonetheless.
If you live long enough you’ll see your heroes die. In 68 years of living, I’ve lost way too many heroes and idols.
Driving past city hall Wednesday morning, I saw a large group of people holding up cardboard signs asking for help. Not unusual in this town where you see panhandlers on almost every major corner of the city.
Trevor Davis walks 2.1 miles to work at the South Belt Walmart every day he has a shift. That comes to 1,008 miles a year, he figured up.
With the passage of Proposition READ, which extends the current operational tax levy for the St. Joseph School District for close to 10 years, it appears at first glance that voters have finally moved past the scandal-ridden 2014 school district audit report.
Being alone never bothered me. I didn’t and still don’t feel the need to be around people to make me happy and content.
Racism will always be with us it seems. But it doesn’t have to be. People can change.
On balmy summer evenings, I sit on my porch with a cold beer and a boom box playing jazz thinking about those hot dusty days of my youth.
Hard times and the COVID-19 virus have forced many people to give up one of their family members.
The Supreme Court struck a huge blow to our Constitution when it overturned Roe v. Wade last week.
