Opinion
Laugh with Kathy: Hold the Line
While international travel seems like just a vague memory now that we are in our second month of self isolation due to Covid-19, I know that we will be packing our bags and heading out to explore the world again in time. Since I won’t be trying to clear customs anytime soon, and hopefully, Custom’s has a shorter memory than Homeland Security (long story, but they emailed me about one of my blog posts – seriously!) I thought I would share my difficulty in clearing customs.
To the Class of 2020
To the Class of 2020:God, this has to suck; it just has to. I’ll never forget when we studied Roman numerals in elementary school and figured out what our class year was in those (MCMLCXXV…look it up), we were obsessed with that year and all of the magic that would surround it. I’m not sure if you guys figured that out with Roman numerals (although MMXX is pretty badass if you get right down to it), but the magic part of your senior year has probably been on your minds for a long time and that’s just natural.
Laugh with Kathy: Mamma Said
Mamma Said:As a child, my mother told us that we could do anything we wanted to do if we made up our mind and tried hard enough. I have believed that my entire life until recently. It turns out that Mom was wrong. I can tell you for a fact that I am NOT capable of doing some things despite my best efforts.We have lived on 14 acres for over ten years, and I decided it was time that I learn to drive my husband’s ZTR (zero turn) mower.
Letter to the Editor: Wake up
Dear Editor, So, here's the deal. There are 3,155,070 people who live in Iowa. Fifty-three of them have succumbed to the China Virus and that is very unfortunate. My condolences to their families and friends. The majority, if not all, had pre-existing conditions that made them vulnerable. That is 1 in every 59,530 Iowans who have died.As of today, there have been 1995 cases in Iowa.
Letter to the Editor: What else is there?
To all of you. What if it works on 90% or more on death's door? What will you say? A Michigan State Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit with death as the last stop was able to get a prescription for this drug therapy. She is recovered. She is alive. What say you now? We are Americans, innovation is in our DNA.
Laugh with Kathy: What is your talent?
I remember watching the Miss America Pageant with my father when I was a young girl. It was sometime in the mid 1960s and Miss Kansas won the title. She lived about 30 miles from where we lived at the time, and I was beside myself. My dad told me that someday I might be able to be Miss America too. Honestly, I was all about the fancy dress and tiara and didn’t really understand what it would take to become Miss America.
Letter to the Editor: Make it stop!
To the Editor,To my chagrin, and I can assure you many others, who opened your website to see another edition of the local amateur’s medical opinion/propaganda. This is what happens when a person watches too much Fox TV and becomes susceptible to the influence of celebrities and propagandists. I know that Vinton Today likes people to mix it up especially when politics are concerned but providing a constant platform to one person to parrot a “cure” that may or may not work is no different that the snake-oil salesman hawking their product as a miracle drug.
Laugh with Kathy: The Law of Good Intentions
While visiting my family in Texas over Thanksgiving, Gene enjoyed trap shooting one afternoon. He talked about it for days (Like seriously days! It takes twelve hours to drive from Texas to Iowa and he JUST KEPT TALKING!), so I decided that a great Christmas gift would be to buy Gene a clay trap thrower. How hard could it be? Well, it turns out that it is a bit more involved than just having good intentions.
Letter to the Editor: And so it goes
Dear Editor: Democrats and my critics will have a hard time backtracking if this works before other therapies are available. My prayer is that recoveries increase and fatalities decrease!! And that researchers find plasma or other therapies 100% successful. Time is of the essence we can’t wait for traditional double-blind trials.
Being a Senior Citizen from the mid 1900's
It's finally happened. I'm old. I had shut the CD off in the car. The player holds 6, but some idiot wasn't that hip on how to change the disks, so while driving, she ejected a disk and pushed another one into the player. She forgot that there is an "eject" as well as a "load" button. It was the state of the art design for my 2002 Lexus. I now had 2 disks in the same slot.