Opinion
How remembering 2012 should (but probably won't) inspire changes
The President was named the Time Magazine "Man of the Year" after defeating a stiff, boring, flip-flopping rich dude from Massachusetts. The president -- whose party had lost big in the mid-term elections two years earlier -- ran his campaign by bragging about making America more secure by eliminating one of America's biggest enemies.
Pastor's Blog - THE LONGEST NIGHT
Friday, Decemter 21, is the first day of winter, the longest night of the year. On that day, the sun will rise at 7:38 am and set at 4:48 pm. That gives us a little over nine hours of daylight, and a long night until Saturday's dawn.
Long, dark nights are not confined to certain times of the year governed by astronomical cycles.
First rule of winter driving safety: DON'T!
(Editor's Note: The following op-ed piece is brought to you again this year by the car insurance industry, law enforcement, ambulance services and towing companies from any place where winter weather has produced driving hazards -- especially humans.)
I once had the enlightening experience of working with a teenage girl who had already wrecked her car two or three times.
The wonderful world wide web
As I glance across the top of my screen, I see that I have 10 screens open.
I am waiting for a picture to download, and I started thinking about what I'd really like for Christmas.
This thought was triggered by another email that came in this morning.
Besides the beautiful picture of a kitchen with floor to ceiling cupboards...I started looking at the Ancestry.
Watershed address: Why to understand where water goes after the rain
It’s a sultry July night in Muscatine County – and the fish are biting!
But John can’t decide whether to keep or throw back the scrappy channel cat he just caught under a snag in the Cedar River.
For some reason, he keeps thinking of the little creek he crossed on a recent visit to his brother up near Osage.
Pastor's Blog - Post Thanksgiving
Part I
It's 1:25 pm on November 26, 2012, and the kitchen is finally cleaned up. The left overs are all packaged up after a trip to the grocery store this morning to buy more storage containers. A double batch of turkey and rice soup was made, pronounced "good," and put in the freezer for winter suppers.
There were only three of us for the Thanksgiving meal, but we had enough to feed fifteen people. Are there too many college bowl games?
I come from the era when there were less than 10 bowl games. Yes, less than 10.
The first year I really remember paying that much attention to the bowls was in the 1965-66 season. You had the four New Year’ Day games: Sugar, Cotton, Rose and Orange. Then, you had five lesser bowls that were played in the days before Jan.
The Legend of the Face of Cedar Rock... help write it!
Legends began when people many years ago saw something unusual and tried to find a historical explanation.
While I am sure this stone is a naturally-occuring phenomenon, it would be fun to think of what stories it might inspire.
If you have any ideas, feel free to share them in the comments section!.
Puppy Love
The term "puppy love" brings about the vision of young kids in love, usually for the first time, who see their lives together with that special someone as a "til death do us part" possibility.
I, on the other hand, have seen what TRUE puppy love is.
On Thanksgiving we took off for the day, chaining our usual inside dog, outside, since no one would be home to let her outside as needed.
Black Friday? Bah Humbug!
One thing I hate to do is shop.
I know, it's not the stereotypical thing for a woman to say, but I do.
I've never understood the pleasure in roaming around aisle after aisle of things I don't want or need.
I'm not even a huge web surfer. I get online, do what I need to do, and get off...of course, unless I get into Facebook, then I don't know where the time goes!
One of the gals I know, said something like this.