Archive for Humor
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Pumpkin Pie
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain — amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were ...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones On this day in history - QC Style Back when I was a kid, my dad had every radio in the house tuned to the local small town radio station. We listened to shows like the swap shop; where folks would come on the air and announce they were selling three good sized boxes of used Mason j...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones The Dog Days of Summer... It was a scorcher of a day in small town America; hot, humid, blistering sun, not even a puff of a breeze. I had reached the ripe old age of 12 and earned a spot at my dad’s gas station. When the drive bell chimed indicating a car was on the drive, everyon...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones The Glories of Summer... Nothing beats summer time in the Cities. In our case, we’re talking summer time in the Quad-Cities. Even at my advanced age, summer still brings back those long time memories of days hanging out with my family and friends. No school, no homework, no t...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The oldest collection in my poetry library, not the most ancient poet, is a publication from Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, and dated 1900, titled The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling. It is Kipling’s early verse (rhyming poems) dating back into the 1880...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston By this time, Summer, the out-of-doors becomes the palace of activity for many folks who want to be in the open, or have to be, for work purposes. There is a special means of transport, too, where some may get out and prance. I am writing for those who “spent” a...
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Remembering Grandma’s Shepherd Pie
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home It was a vaguely familiar aroma when I walked through the door at mom and dad’s to join them for supper a few weeks ago. And although it was familiar somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I had to connect too many dots to immediately ident...
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A Recipe for Love
By Mary Huebbe Marketing Director Ridgecrest Village While celebrating our 50th anniversary, we decided to make a cookbook going back to recipes from some of our first residents and staff to today’s residents and staff. It was fun putting it together. I was given a copy of the first cookbook ...
