To the editor: Cheers to Carl Hendrickson and his column in the Dec. 9 edition of The Call about “The Gift of Effective Communication” through membership in the Toastmasters organization. Toastmasters...

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...

To the editor: I read with interest Carl Hendrickson’s column in the July 22 St. Louis Call. His Healthy Living segment was titled “My great adventure by sea and train.” Similar to his account,...

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...

June may be best known for the beginning of summer, school break for students, summer vacation for families – but did you know that it’s also Effective Communications Month? Every year the month...