Archive for Personal Growth
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I am cash register honest, and I am also a human and a poet. Lots of us are the first two in these qualities. Fewer are poets. what I mean by this first thought is we have a compulsion to be as honest as possible. “As possible” is the key. Think back on times “honest a...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston As the summer season moves away from us, and schools open even in the heat of the early fall, I am thinking about some beauty here – and gone as seasons show themselves. Some of you had plenty of water for the floral displays you plant and supervise. Some of our friends and n...
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Once in a Lifetime
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home We knew we had to go. They really needed to see each other. Several years ago, Linda’s youngest brother enlisted in the Navy as he enrolled in dental school. Not many receive the prestigious Navy scholarship. Those who do will commit them...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston If you are a professional writer, as I was for decades, a writer and broadcaster of news stories, longer series, and finally agriculture markets, you scout out what appears to be truth in the matter at hand. As a novelist or poet, make up all or part of what you say! Create it! ...
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National Parents’ Day
By Pam Haumann Director of Programs Child Abuse Council Did you know that National Parents’ Day will be observed on Sunday, July 25, 2010? Parents’ Day is a relatively new holiday that started with the Clinton Administration in 1994 when it was unanimously approved by Congress to be recogn...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I am ready to say that creative writing, with some exceptions is much like fishing. Even if you, as writer, are steered to a time and place or a subject there is plenty of word choice and situations that can be stretched. Truth may be a master but the skill of the writer is the ...
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A World with More Birthdays!
By Mary Schricker, SRES Realtor Ruhl&Ruhl Real Estate Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Some of the earliest evidence of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors in human mummies in ancient Egypt. The word cancer came fro...
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What’s It Take To Be a Pink Tie Guy?
By Gary Metivier I must admit, the first time Sue Brunsma at the Syndicate Hub men’s clothing store suggested I try a pink shirt and tie I pulled back. It wasn’t so much a ‘I’m too macho to wear girly colors’ sort of thing. I just didn’t see myself as a pink tie kind of guy. Blues, ...
