Alright, my humor isn't for everyone. And frankly, most of the things that amuse me I try to keep to myself. Ya see, just a few of the words that can describe my sense of humor are: weird, dark, and just plain stupid. I have gotten in trouble for my sense of humor more times than I can ...
Life is tough! Probably no argument there, right? No one gets through this thing called "life" without a few bumps, scratches and bruises. And it can be so easy to just live by Murphy's Law---but why? Years ago there was an old TV beer commercial, (can you recall what brand), that say ...
Years ago, I took a youth group to Door County, Wis., for a retreat. We decided to watch a movie, and set up a projector, as one of our teens wrestled with a projector screen, getting the legs of the screen going in the right direction. Sitting down, he tripped on the projector’s audio ...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will relax the fishing regulations at Cherry Lake on the south side of the city of Tama starting September 15 to allow anglers to more freely harvest fish. Anglers with a valid sport fishing license may harvest all sizes and unlimited quantities ...
Schedules, I've never stuck to one. Never have, more than likely, never will. I don't have any pet peeves against schedules; it's just I've never been able to keep one. And yes, this is in direct correlation to my near constant lateness; more than once, I've run out of the house late to a ...
The yearly calendar tells us (or at the very least gives us clues) as to what we should dwell on - a.k.a. think about at any given time. We just passed the back-to-school, number-two pencil, don’t wear white after Labor Day stage and are entering the spooky, scary movie, costumized, ...
The oldest ploy in the political handbag: find an enemy (or better yet, create one) to pile blame on to scare voters into voting for you. Desperate politicians always need a boogeyman, the current tact of Republican leadership. Create a frenzy, by all means! “Watch out!!! The Chinese ...
As a kid, I listened to the radio to hear the one-minute mystery called, “Only the Shadow Knows!” We’d try to figure out the answer to his minute mystery! But only the Shadow knew the answer. Donald Barnhouse was driving home with his children from the funeral of his first wife. ...
Ah, the joys of growing up in Chelsea in the 50's & 60's and going to school at South Tama. No cell phones, Facebook, GPS, Googling, TiK-Tok or anything else that we have today. Life was hard back in our era, wasn't it but would any of us change our "growing up" years for the days of ...
Regular readers of this column will attest to the fact that my summer has been defined by two words: home improvement. I was set to start the summer with a new storm door at the front of the house and a walk-in shower at the very back. Both are still undone. But fret not! I’ve ...