Archive for Personal Growth
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Enjoy those Memories Now!
By Harry G. Coin Industrial/Systems Software Architect CEO, Quiet Fountain LLC 563-332-4970 • hcoin@quietfountain.com So, there I was. I pulled into the garage, hit the door-closer button, got out of the car, went across the floor, up the step, opened the back door, my mind wandering arou...
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Honor Flight April 2010
Submitted by Bob Morrison Development Director of Ridgecrest Village & Hub Director of Honor Flight of the Quad Cities. The WWII Memorial was dedicated to “the Greatest Generation” by President Bush in May of 2004. [caption id="attachment_1216" align="alignright" width="300" caption=...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston I’ve worked this “rehash” in a way to highlight two poets ability to reveal strengths and realities for advancement. I indicated I would be writing about flowers this month. I hope the blooms in your yard and surroundings came on time, and the blosso...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston ....the major hurdle for a poem and its creator poet is publication. Get that poem or book of poems on paper and, more important, get it “out there.” What makes spring come? Depends on whom you ask; the calendar and established dates on it; the solar inferences. Whatever,...
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Speaking Out – How Much is Enough?
By Pam Brammann, R. N. I was raised in Iowa, a city girl and an American. I have always been proud to be an American. That’s why it scares me when I see a possibility of America’s demise not too far off into the future, especially if we do not change our current path of greed and selfish ...
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Tales by Triplett – It’s never too late to learn
By Patrick Triplett God love my mom. She means well. But try as she may, she just doesn't quite get it when it comes to sports. Granted, she didn't start getting involved until her grandson, Mike, became a sportswriter a few years ago. She began reading his articles and watching his interviews on...
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Incredible Beauty of Costa Rica
By Becky Lee Hinton Director of Marketing The Fountains Senior Living Community Costa Rica is a small Central American country that is almost entirely rainforest. The vast array of tropical flowers is perhaps the first thing that one would notice. Birds of paradise, bromeliads and orchids are ...
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A Close Call
David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home Boarding the bus for my very first day of kindergarten, I quickly realized that I had something no one else in my class could boast: a cast from my thumb past the elbow on my left arm. A few weeks before school began, our family had gath...
