I told my physical therapist that I had broken my arm in two places. She advised me to stay away from those two places.
Humorous? I hope so, because humor plays an essential role in our overall...
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell has launched a new Elder and Disabled Persons Abuse Hotline in March. Anyone with evidence of an elderly or disabled person being abused in St. Louis County...
March equals a time of madness. No, I am not referring to basketball. I am referring to the Nenana Ice Classic.
My father was a gambling man. No, not a professional gambler. But upon retirement...
Last month I wrote that one was never too old to set goals. I suggested four categories of goals to establish – mental, physical, spiritual, and relationship – and promised to provide additional...
Last month I had lunch with my friends Tom and Judy. Tom asked me what plans I had for my upcoming birthday. As a reader of the Call, Tom knew that I had written a column about skydiving on my 70th birthday....
This Christmas give someone a gift that will last a lifetime: the gift of effective communication.
Communications skills are essential throughout a lifetime. A baby attempts to imitate the sounds...
My journey began in November of 2019. I had been feeling fine. No pain or discomfort, but for some unexplained reason I had been losing weight. After tests, the doctor’s diagnosis was pancreatic...
The history of Halloween can be traced back 2,000 years. The ancient Celts associated the end of summer and the beginning of the dark, cold winter with death. They believed the boundary between the...
At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the Founding Fathers found it was as difficult to govern a country as it was to free the people from an oppressive government.
At the conclusion of the...
It was July when I disembarked from the small ship in Russian America. The year was 1947 and the land is now called Alaska, meaning “great land” in the language of the native Aleuts. This territory...
