I know we just have a bit over a week to go. But goodness, folks! I want no more emails, no more text messages and no more hand-wringing. Will I stay or will I go? I am so worried, so very worried, about this election that I’m trying to figure out where my husband and […]
My husband and I are in the Kansas City area to attend my 60th high school class reunion. That’s right 60! I really, really don’t know where the time has gone. Gallatin High School, Class of ’64 Some 20 of us with gather shortly at a Saltgrass Steakhouse to reminisce and reconnect. Many of the […]
It really bothers me to see billionaires who can’t find any charities to give to, rocketing off into Space at Cape Canaveral. Musk as contractor But then, Elon Musk is a government contractor. I can find nothing telling me what he’s paying Cape Canaveral back for regarding this flight, if anything. I’ve left a message […]
I couldn’t help feel happy when I learned that Ukraine had captured some Russian territory. And it made me think of the song “High Hopes,” popularized by Frank Sinatra for a movie in 1959. It goes like this: Just what makes that little old ant Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant Anyone knows an […]
You know, I’ve been around a while. And except for the time I lived in Pennsylvania, during President Nixon’s downfall and the Watergate hearings, I’ve never lived in a “swing state.” But other than my two years in Pennsylvania, I never lived in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin or Michigan. They count, I guess. And though […]
I’m not going to use this platform to rant–well, except in rare instances, I suppose. I think smarter folks than I are doing that more capably. But I want to point to former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who’s outside the convention in Milwaukee. You know, a year earlier, he was standing on the debate stage […]
I watched a movie on Netflix recently called “Back Country.” It was about two hikers, a man and woman, whose leisurely hike turned terrifying when they got lost. The more terrifying part was the boyfriend saw the grizzly scat and didn’t tell his girlfriend. The ending was awful when the boyfriend was eaten. Even more […]
I just finished a delightful book that I picked up in a local thrift shop. And it took me back to Mom and Dad and my life growing up in the weekly newspaper business. Charlotte Schnexnayder was that editor My mother wasn’t a “salty old editor,” but my dad surely was. His journalism was always […]
Many people were looking forward, I guess, to watching the annual White House Correspondents Association annual dinner last night. But hasn’t it veered drastically from its founding image? Started as a way to celebrate journalists The event actually first started in 1914, so last night was it’s 110th anniversary. But it’s strayed away a great […]
Two things this week take me back more than 50 years in time. And it’s not really in a good way. Campus protests Really? Couldn’t we have figured out how to handle campus protests from 50 years ago without the violence and arrests of this week? I just watched two educators on PBS NewsHour, the […]