Archive for Humor
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June 2017 Calendar of Events
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association – Are you or someone you know a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s? Free educational classes are being offered for people with dementia, their families, and those who professionally serve them. Get support from ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston We hope some heat is a feature of our lives this month. The weather has been stop and start most of the Spring. However, our choice is to bring to these paragraphs a different heat. This heat calls for home cooking aimed at being delicious. Several months ago I did some poetic de...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Sin, Suffering and Sorrow - True Confessions about June As a kid growing up at the family gas station, I was exposed to many things which were probably age inappropriate. Or at least judged inappropriate by morals and community standards of the day. One of these excursions down t...
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What Do You Call a Sleeping Bull?
The school bus was abuzz with anticipation for the day’s field trip. The second graders eagerly peered out the windows as the bus turned into the lane of Cinnamon Ridge Farms. A chorus of “Old John Maxwell had a farm” concluded as the bus came to a stop in front of the new blue and white bar...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
By Kari Smith The Best Part of New York Most people who love to travel, would say that New York City is the best part of the state of New York. I would beg to differ. Last summer we drove the 700+ miles to the state of New York to see my favorite part of New York, Niagara Falls. It was not my f...
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May 2017 Calendar of Events
Support Groups and Informational Seminars Quad Cities Alzheimer’s Association – Are you or someone you know a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer’s? Free educational classes are being offered for people with dementia, their families, and those who professionally serve them. Get support from ...
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Self-Serve Store Open 24/7
By John & Joan Maxwell Cinnamon Ridge Farms It was a dark and stormy night. Thunder rumbled. So did the man’s stomach. His headlights cut through the wet darkness of 275th Street. In the distance, a warm light beckoned. Hands gripping the wheel, the man’s mouth watered as the light dre...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones The Story of the Brushy Branch Maypole If you happen to be a betting person, here’s a pretty sure thing for you. Every publication large or small in the English speaking world will carry a short five word line during the month of April or May. Being a full-fledged computer nerd, yo...
