Category Archives: Feature

I drove over to Pella one night last week, because I had nothing else to do. It was the night before the celebration officially started. I thought I could just cruise through the city and see the beautiful flowers. Holy cow, apparently about a million people had the same idea I had. The place was packed. I...

I have a couple subjects to write about this week. The first is cell phones. Mine nearly drives me crazy a lot of days. I get eight or 10 calls a day from numbers that I don’t know and don’t ever want to know. I normally just hit the disconnect key. But sometimes by the end of...

Getting Old My birthday was on Easter Sunday. I’d like to thank all my many friends and relatives who remembered me with cards and gifts … both of you! I’m just one year short of having been on this earth for half a century. I’ve always heard how life begins at 40 and all the many...

It seems I have witnessed many strange things in my life. A lot of them have happened in church. I once saw a man who showed up in a brand new suit. It was obvious he was proud as he could be. I still remember a couple things. There were two large tags on his back and...

I just wanted to write about some ridiculous things I have heard about but have not actually seen. Cell phones are pretty much a piece of the American life. Everybody has one. I have one. I’ve had quite a few. I lose or destroy them. As close as I can remember, I’m on my seventh one. (Daughter...

Most of my life is behind me. I don’t do a lot of crazy things anymore. But one or two still slip in! This is a ridiculous but true story about something that happened to me decades ago! I’ve always been embarrassed to write it but finally figured people are not going to get to harass me...

My job allowed me to meet an enormous number of people, men and women of all ages. I always wondered what gave people their personalities. Several were a pleasure to deal with. They were fairly smart and courteous and easy to deal with. They could tell in a minute that I was not smart. It gave them a...