I’ll admit it I’m not the easiest person to live with. I’ve got plenty of friends and even a few fans, but when it comes to the home life, after two weddings, two divorces, and a plethora of relationships, I’ve decided I’m better off living with dogs.
Hudson’s turning out to be a pretty good dog, but he has a sick sense of humor.
Theo’s a wanderer. To him everything within eight miles of home is his yard. When we first moved to the country, I didn’t have a pen set up and didn’t have the heart to leave him on the chain all day. There were more than a few times when I would come home to no dogs, or just Hudson.
As I sit here banging away on my weekly column, a ding sound notifies me that I have mail. I click on the prompt and open the umpteenth spam advertisement telling me for only $64.95, their “sweetheart package” will win me the undying love of my significant other.
I don’t have a significant other.
As an editor of one of Gatehouse Media’s network of newspapers I spent last Tuesday afternoon at a corporate strategy-sharing meeting in Hutchinson. Unfortunately somebody at the meeting or on the way to, shared a nice little flu bug with me and the next several days were mostly a fog.
I do remember something about changes.
Last week as I pulled into the office I noticed a little wooden plaque in the store window next door.
It was a carving of a rooster doing his private business and reading a copy of the St. John News. Above it were the words have you ever seen a chicken- uh, poop? I thought to myself, “Hmm, me thinks somebody is unhappy.”
It was in February of 1985 when I got my first 60 miles per hour truck. I had always been driving trucks that when it came time to pass another vehicle, it wasn't a problem. The harder that you pushed on the pedal, the faster you went.
It’s been a while, so I guess I probably owe a little more than just two cents worth, but that’s how it goes with Bipolar Mania. When I’m good, I’m really good. When I’m bad, don’t talk to me.
God went to the most honest truck driver he could find and said, "Because of your honesty, I will give you anything you want.”
"I would like to have a bridge to Hawaii so I can drive there". Then the truck driver paused, "On second thought, I would like to be able to understand women"?
The annual Stafford County CROP Walk is coming, Sunday 27. CROP Walks are one way we can help to overcome hunger and poverty in our world. In fact, that’s what CROP stands for – Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty.
A truck was coming into a small town with the motorcycle following. The highway went from 2 lanes to 4 lanes. The truck got into the right lane and slowed down to make a right turn into a truck stop. The motorcycle stayed in the left lane to proceed on its way.
Hudson needed a home. For a short time Theo and I needed a home as well. Through this network of great readers of the News a nice placed isolated farm house away from “the city life” became available that suited us all.
USD 350 is starting out this school year with a significantly smaller budget. Kansas schools are funded based on the number of students enrolled.
Last year the funding rate was $4,433 per student. Due to the economic downturn in the state and nation, the state legislature last spring passed funding that reduced the funding per student.
That’s one of the things I enjoy about living in smaller communities, they always make such a big to-do about little things.
I feel your frustration of the way some people treat you by the way they drive. I never understood why if your vehicle is being passed on the interstate, the other driver wants to pull back in front of you within a few feet.
For those of you that have stopped by or called the office lately, you may have noticed a couple of new faces, or voices, but regardless of what that lady on the phone is telling you, it still ain’t Heaven.
I was going to write about how great the other half of my brain works but I have this story bouncing around inside of my head. Instead of risking anymore damaged to my brain, I should tell it to you.
Readers of the St. John News may have noticed the new edition to the format with the Fun and Games page containing nine top comic strips like The Born Loser, Dilbert, Frank & Ernest and The Grizzwells.
In our latest poll we ask you to vote for your favorite comic strips. Poll will close August 20.
My wife and I were shopping at the Hutchinson Wal-Mart one Saturday afternoon. As we navigated down the aisle in front of electronics, I hear a man saying, "watch where you are going.”
Did you ever hear the old saying, "Well, no news is good news!" In our society where the media continues to bombard us with "media overload", sometimes the best news is that there "just ain't no news" today! Anne Murray had a hit song years ago that said, "...sure could use a little good news today!"
Life just loves to smack us with challenges which we don’t want and aren’t ready for. It’s so easy, when clobbered, to go, “Blaaaahhhhhhh!” and fall apart. It’s even easier to worry constantly about stuff we don’t really need to worry about.
