Archive for Humor
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Ridgecrest Dream on Clay I want to play the Madrid Open one day, I hear old, rachitic men are fast on clay! To be sure, one thing my old bones know, On the grass of Wimbledon, I would be slow, Yet on Spanish clay my fame might grow! So,...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Award Winning Journalist—Maybe, Maybe Not Recently QC Jones won an award for writing. The whole thing put me into a bit of a spin. Your pal, QC, who never suffers from the ailment of false modesty, has been torn massive braggadocio and embarrassed blushing. It might even be...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones QC Goes to the Drive-In Hello everyone, it’s your old pal QC here, and I am thinking about summer. Today’s a bright sunny warm day in our Quad-Cities, and I find myself procrastinating. Allowing a few commitments to slide, I closed my eyes and conjured up the perfect summer. Un...
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Just Saying…
What does it take to be a Dentist? By Q.C. Jones Allow me to explain. This article could better be summarized as a true confession. Realizing that true confessions can be self-serving, self-aggrandizing, and only good for the writer, please bear with me as I journey through my life’s exp...
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Just Saying…
April Questions By Q.C. Jones Your erstwhile friend and literary pal QC Jones has been thinking a lot lately. Perhaps questioning life, or maybe questioning the art of asking questions. Ever since I was a pollywog of a person, I have been famous for asking questions. My parents were kind and lovin...
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Just Saying…
March and one April Holiday Celebrated By Q.C. Jones As I sit down to my trusty keyboard and begin the process of writing something insanely interesting and witty about the month of March, several ideas are popping around in my mind. First thought, I could wax elegantly on special days and weeks...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
Wisdom Teeth By Eloise Graham Why are these back molars called wisdom teeth? Do we get wiser when they come in? Do we become dumb when they are pulled? A recent visit to the dentist, then the oral surgeon, had me pondering some of these questions as well as remembering my many hours spent in th...
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Just Saying…
Warming the Cockles of the Heart By Q.C. Jones Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, allow me to place a public service weather report. January was cold. As I sit shivering, fighting hypothermia, frostbite, and brain freeze, I can hear the furnace of my circa-1870 hovel of an office struggle...
