Opinion
Pastor\'s Blog: FORGIVENESS...Forgiven...Forgiving
Ever feel like you screw up constantly- like all the time? That’s my world. Days come and go, and it feels like I’m still the same loser I was last yea...
A message for the Iowa State Fair Butter Cow vandals
To: The people who painted the Iowa Butter Cow Red this past weekend, (as well as to whoever it was who put the "Go vegan" message on the Butter Cow at the State Fair in 2011):
Congra... The wisdom to find Serenity when GPS is your guide
Like just about everyone else who makes a living working with computer-related technology, I both love and hate it.
I love the career opportunities it has given me; I hate it for its frequent,...
We're all in this together; how cooperation matters in Cedar River Valley
From catastrophic floods in 2008 to record drought and low flows in 2012 - Is it any wonder that we still don’t know what to expect from our rivers?
But maybe we’re learning. Iowan...
Letter to the Editor - The Affordable Health Care Act – Is Affordable?
If ACA is such a good deal, how come private sector unions, government sector unions, Congressional Staff, large corporations all request or have been granted a “carve out”?...
Yes, we are probably related...
...sorry if that makes you cringe...
Our daughter left to be a camp counselor in Tennessee two months ago. She called a few weeks later to tell me that one of the other counselors there said sh...
The aroma and tastes of childhood I will remember at Celebration Park
Standing in front of the old white house at the corner of 2nd Street and A Avenue, I could almost smell the aroma of tobacco from Uncle Hugo’s pipe.
While I grew up in Independence and ru... The Zimmerman case, and the right to get out of the way
While teaching my kids to drive, I tell them, “You sometimes have the right of way. You always have the right to get out of the way.”
This lesson also applies to life -- and the big...
The rise of the psychopathic machines
Psychiatrists say that people who think machines are out to get them are suffering from some form of mental disorder.
But they only say that because some machine is telling them to.
I have ...
'Our Natal Day,' The world's best July 4 poem
Years ago, I bought some old (late 19th century) books at a book sale for an organization in Independence.
One of those contained the following poem, written around Centennial of our country. ...