Archive for Humor
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston You and I want rivers! Enjoy and marvel or, be suspicious and alarmed. Each spring, I am alert (you may be too) about the flow from seasonal northern snow heading south, filling creeks and streams, building those larger landmarks we call rivers. We live in the Missi...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The first month or two of this year, I discovered a recipe book, part of a vast collection. We were sitting with the grandkids with nothing to read. I needed to find a recipe for meatloaf. I have a slow learning curve on that wonderful dish. Food for two is still a chore, and you...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Last mention, last month was to refresh our memories of a great volunteer, and fine poet. A big challenge when originating this monthly column from Coralville, I miss things I should not. By that I mean, in particular those who I knew over 40 years in the Quad-Cities who have die...
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The Sand Between My Toes
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth." - Rachel Carson My love affair with Florida began as a young child. With the car-top luggage rack full, my dad would drive our station wagon out of t...
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Our Crazy English Language
By Mary Schricker Gemberling As a former English teacher, I am pretty tuned into our language, its uses and abuses. But I was recently reminded of just how inconsistent and idiomatic our English language can be. A German friend of ours, who has over the years spent considerable time in ...
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IN and OUT of the Quad-Cities: The Puerto Vallarta Chihuahua Project
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Happy February everyone. This is Gail. And, rather than the normal Toni and Gail in and out chatter, this month’s episode will be dedicated to a personal social science project. In many ways, what you are about to read runs in parallel to the g...
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Holy Fire of Joy
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home My childhood home has a feature that seems to have become a little less commonplace in homes during recent years: a wood-burning fireplace. And, more often than not, it was usually crackling with a fire when we were in for the evening duri...
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Santa Goes Modern – Santa’s Internet Helpers
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Despite a combined total of close to 30 years in our lovely QCA environment, Santa’s magic book has us listed under, “Oklahoma, USA: Nice Girls.” That’s the way Santa used to roll back in Eisenhower years. Younger readers will be shocked to le...
