Archive for Personal Growth
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Our Narrowboat Adventure
By Mary Schricker Gemberling With the first week of our trip in Ireland complete, we were eager to meet up with our friends Jim and Diane Tiedje for our narrow boat adventure in England. We departed from the Manchester airport and headed to Festival Park at Stoke-On-Trent. The men stopped at the...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Each month as I consider the column, or essay if you prefer, and don’t have a ripe idea which can deal with a specific poet or a topic, I rumble through my library, ad lib, to bring you a topic that first, appeals to me some way, and hopefully, to you my important audience. The...
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The Emerald Isle
By Mary Schricker Gemberling The planning for our trip to Ireland and England was finally over. Along with our good friends, Mark and Becky Christy and Roger and Anida Chamlin, Gary and I landed at the Dublin Airport and were greeted by Tony, our driver and guide for our week-long tour of Irelan...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Our Quad-Cities is blessed to have many layers of poets, in age range from eight to eighty. I have worked with many who compose verse, and know their work is journeyman or exceptional. This month, I work to reacquaint you with three men. Mike Bayles will be giving a reading at th...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Middle of the year, and the grandson Robbie turns ten. Wow, did we know these kids of our kids were going to get older so fast. We try not to get older as fast. This reverie set in motion thoughts for this column, about young people, particularly young poets. Last month, during t...
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I Have An Idea . . .
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home “I have an idea...” How many times have we all said this – or thought it – or heard someone else say it? Ideas are the spark that creates the momentum of thoughtful energy which, in turn, becomes the fuel that sustains forwa...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Spring rains are always a little scary if they deliver lots of runoff to flood urban and rural areas. Some of that did take place, if you are up on the latest reports on the tube (TV), or those smaller electronic “look at me” carriers. By June, all of that should be over here...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Everyone raise their hand, or better yet stand up. That is, if you enjoy reading or listening to a long poem, anytime. I didn’t see any arm or body motion, so I guess we like shorter poems that “get to the point, whatever it is, sooner.” I am in that camp of people most of...
