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Summing Up Life as a Senior

3 years ago By From The Collection Of Pat Young

I don't know about you but I find all of these to be just about how I feel anymore. “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” –Bill Watterson I’m responsible for what I say, not what you understand.

Old Age…And More

3 years ago By Worth Repeatin’ From The Collection Of Pat Young

I found this timely because today I was in a shoe store that sells only shoes, nothing else. A young girl with a tattoo and green hair walked over to me and asked, 'What brings you in today?' I looked at her and said, 'I'm interested in buying a refrigerator.' She didn't quite know how to respond, had that deer in the headlights look. I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.

Whirlwinds: Matching Toddler Growth Spurts is Almost Impossible

3 years ago By Barb Bierman Batie

We hosted the grandson for a few hours last week and we commiserate with his parents and daycare provider on this toddler’s, almost preschooler, growth and hunger spurts. Since his Mama was helping with a community function and Dada was on his way back from a work-related trip to western Nebraska, we picked him up from daycare.

Whirlwinds: Matching Toddler Growth Spurts is Almost Impossible

We All Know At Least One Smart Aleck

3 years ago By Worth Repeatin’ From The Collection Of Pat Young

It was mealtime during an airline flight. 'Would you like dinner?' the flight attendant asked John, seated in front.

Whirlwinds: The Time Change Blues

3 years ago By News Staff

It’s that time of year again – you know the twiceyearly time change? Each year the struggle to adjust increases as my biological clock takes longer and longer to reset. Sunday Hubby and I were awake at 5 a.m.

What Love Means to 4-8-Year-Old Kids

3 years ago By From The Collection Of Pat Young

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8-year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got were broader, deeper, and more profound than anyone could have ever imagined! “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too.

Whirlwinds: Happy Fall Y'all!

3 years ago By News Staff

After an unbelievably hot and dry summer, it has been a relief to have an actual fall. While still very dry most of us have been able to work comfortably in the yard and garden on season-ending projects that had been postponed due to the extreme heat.

Trust Along Life’s Highway

3 years ago By News Staff

ROXANNE CONVERSE-WHITING

The 2018 Toyota Tacoma has a few more bells and whistles than Rhonda, the 2011 Honda that I drive. One feature the Tacoma has allows a radar to sense when the vehicle is approaching another vehicle too quickly while set on cruise control. It will automatically slow the vehicle to match the vehicle’s speed ahead of it. Getting used to trusting this feature took me a while. Particularly when driving at high speeds in traffic, I had to learn to trust that the truck would do what it was designed to do.

An open road surrounded by low green hills and a bright blue sky.

Whirlwinds: I left my heart in Halsey

3 years ago By News Staff

It has been just over a week since another massive wildfire hit Nebraska. This time it was in our beloved Sandhills and swept through our National Forest destroying the Nebraska State 4-H Camp and on through 19,000 acres of Sandhills grazing lands.

Go Ahead and Take the Leap

3 years ago By News Staff

When I visited my son in Edmond, Oklahoma, I saw an interesting sculpture of a woman leaping from a train. I was intrigued and took a closer look to understand this woman’s story. During the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, Nannita R.H.”Kentucky” Daisey leapt from the train to claim land and become one of the first women to apply for a land grant in her own name. Her courageous and colorful story made a mark on history.

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