Archive for Humor
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston We are into that special gift-giving season that rolls around the calendar each year. Just when did you, or do you, begin thinking and doing about special presents for special people in your life? Did you find something in July, or will it call your name as a box of candy, sp...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities: The NOT THANKFUL LIST
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Suddenly we woke up, and it’s November. You know the drill. Pilgrims, pumpkin pie and giant turkeys combined with relentless Holiday sales and carols spewing from store speakers. Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, every magazine you open contains a celebri...
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In and Out of the Quad Cities: It’s our busiest time of the year, again this month
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall If we were doing word association, October would match well with hectic, hurried, hustling, swamped and snowed under. Thinking back, September and August might match with immersed and mesmerized. We’re having fun, but sometimes we are wondering if this ...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities: What did you do on your summer vacation?
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Remember your first assignment upon returning to school? Part ritual, reminisce and prepubescent poetry combined to create the first homework project of the school season. Fresh from a pack of neighborhood adventures, trips to visit grandparents and an...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities: We were flooded (with cool stuff to do)
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Once more the Mighty Mississippi came rambling out of its banks and sweeping through the low lying areas of our fair city. We’re not sure what happened to the old term “500 year flood.” Maybe we’re imagining things, but this year’s little water ...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER – Fond Memories of Burma-Shave Signs to Brighten Your Day
By Dee Deuth I give great credit for my learning to read as a child to our family vacations in August. Each year in that hot month in the 1940s, my Dad would take his one week annual vacation, and we’d travel in our Ford to great “faraway places,” usually about 200 miles from home. (Wow, ca...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities: Aging with Time, like Yesterday’s Whine
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall We’ve been enjoying wines since age six. Shocking story, considering our staunch Oklahoma raising. Give us just a moment to give you the lowdown. It was a lovely July day. The sun was shining, the cute little baby robins were chirping in the tree, th...
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In and Out of the Quad-Cities: Los Alimentos de nuestros Padres
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall You are probably wondering about the title. A few years ago, one of our favorite singers, Linda Ronstadt, did an album called “Canciones De Mi Padre.” Roughly translated (our Spanish is close to nada) this means “the songs of my father.” Not to be...
