Category Archives: Feature

The people who know me know I spent most of my life looking through a windshield. At one time in my life, I was a good driver and even got a compliment once in a while but not often. Most people I knew were good to me, they would say they’d seen me back into a place...

A lot of my so-called Golden Years Mornings begin with a trip to Dale Schnell’s cabin in the timber north of Sully. Most mornings, I meet three other geezers. Daryl Menninga is one of us. He is a little more dignified than the rest of us. He shows up in a brand new pickup. He is...

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...