Feb. 27 – March 26. The open period for filing as a candidate for political office. All will be candidates on the August ballot. The successful candidates will advance to the ballot in November.
In...
The winter months.
The weather is often cold and gloomy. We tend to spend less time outdoors and reduce our exposure to sunlight. We tend to find that we have low energy and tiredness and begin to lose...
January 2024. A new month. The beginning of a new year. It is the month in which many of us make resolutions to lose weight, to eat better, to exercise more, to become a better money manager.
For some...
As a child growing up in a mining camp in the territory of Alaska, the only way to obtain Christmas gifts was through the Sears Roebuck catalog. I would leave the catalog where my parents could find...
Apfelstrudel – German apple strudel – a favorite dessert of my maternal grandmother.
It was Thanksgiving 1946. Gathered around the table were my parents, my brother and me along with my maternal grandparents,...
In my latest column that ran in the Sept. 28 edition of the St. Louis Call, I explained why I thought September was the cruelest month.
My younger brother contracted polio in September 1964. He was...
We’re all living on borrowed time
In 2019, when in my early 80s, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers. Statistically only 4.5%...
I am sure each reader has heard the story of Rip Van Winkle. He goes to the hills to hunt squirrels with his rifle and dog. In the hills Rip comes across a band of funny-looking men with a keg of liquor....
My mother was a pioneer.
Not what you usually think of a woman leaving the comforts of a home on the eastern seaboard and traveling westward in a covered wagon. No, my mother set sail from the western...
The month of April is often considered that dreadful “income tax month.” It does not matter whether you do your own taxes, have a friend or relative do them or use a professional tax preparer.
But...
