Archive for Personal Growth
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When a Loved One Passes Away: First Steps
By Curt Ford Nash Nash Bean & Ford The first hours, days, and weeks after a loved one passes away can be incredibly taxing and stressful. Not only are you in a state of shock and grief, there are also myriad practical tasks that you find yourself facing – and they’re often unfamil...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston The business of writing seeks more polish from those of us doing it as prose or poetry for the public. We need to search for memorable or clever lines. Words to enhance meaning in ideas we try to make known. Tried and true for poetry, at least, is to record, paper or tape, the...
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A Labor of Love
By Mary Schricker, SRES Realtor Ruhl&Ruhl Real Estate “During the past few years as a Seniors Specialist I have had the opportunity to act as a sounding board for clients who have been thrust into the role of caregiving for a family member or friend. I have listened, mediated and ca...
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Some Things I Learned from my Father-in-Law
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Linda and I started dating when I was a senior in high school; she, a junior. It wasn’t too long after we began dating that I learned a few things about her dad. As I brought Linda home rather late one Friday night, he emerged from the...
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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! ...
