Archive for Personal Growth
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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...
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Wisdom and The Chessboard
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home There was a time during junior high when I played my share of chess. Several of my friends, I discovered, were pretty good chess players, and my intrigue for the game intensified as I watched them maneuver – and out-maneuver – one anoth...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston When poet Walt Whitman becomes the subject of discussions or conversations at a literary gathering, many of those listening can claim to not understand. Whitman, individual that he was, tossed some poets aside because they had not used American language, words used then and now a...
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Remembering 9/11
By Dee Deuth, CSA Weerts Funeral Home As we pause and reflect upon Patriot Day this year, we do so on the 10th anniversary of that awful day that forever altered American - indeed, world - history. In 2008, I took my family to New York to “pay our respects,” if you will, at Ground Zero. Fol...
