Archive for Personal Growth
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston For the new year, I have taken 50+ years off the present, in this column. Set yourself at Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University (then College). If you are in your mid-70s, you could have been there on campus. This time of year, windy and cold. It was a long walk from Beardshear Hall ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The art of poetry seems to be divided, in fact, and in fancy with line endings and the spacing of the resulting verse. But there is also a ferocity involved. First, there is a ferocious knowledge of language and its usages. A dictionary refers to ferocious as wild, the way we usu...
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Love Lights a Candle
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda often has a fragrant candle burning in our home. Wispy spring and summery scents enjoyed for the past several months have been recently replaced by the warm and inviting scents of autumn. As the snow falls to stay, the aromas of everg...
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My Favorite Time of Year!!!
By Mary Schricker “There is a harmony in autumn, a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” Percy Bysshe Shelley Autumn, coming on the heels of summer’s frenzied schedule, brings a kind of peacefulness to our...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Not long ago, my wife Rhoada suggested to me that my columns here seem to go better if they are less academic and more folksy. Poets have trouble accepting advice from other poets, called criticism, let alone family members who have not spoken out on this matter for seven or eigh...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
By Roger Brann Administrator Bettendorf Health Care Thanksgiving has to be one of America’s most enjoyable holidays. However, I think it should always be on Friday to allow us to rest up and recover on Saturday and Sunday from all the food we consume on Thanksgiving. We all have our trad...
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Thanksgiving Soup
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home To be totally honest, I don’t remember much about kindergarten. But, I do remember my teacher. I remember that we got to take naps. And, I remember that we did something special for Thanksgiving. I suppose we made some turkeys by outl...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston We Americans are hearing and reading more and more about China, and I don’t think it will go away soon. In our columns here, we seldom deal in the political aspects, although we are aware from college training and lifelong occupation concerns with the huge Communist led peoples...
