The Superior Express -

I’m not sure, but I suspect what I’m going to relate is common among quite a number of “older” people. Some time back while discussing health issues, someone asked about the number of different medications I took, and how many different pills I...

Technology . . . It is either a “God-send” or the demon from hell. I contend that it is great as long as it works. It has become so common place that we all rely on it without even knowing it. Since most of Nebraska is experiencing a pretty sev...

There are times . . . troubles . . . and then the world . . . Do you sometimes wonder just what the world’s going to do? Things like the Nebraska Legislature last week had almost 66 percent of its members vote to limit abortions. However, it was j...

The Book of Genesis tells us that the Lord entrusted human beings with the responsibility of being stewards of creation (Gen 2:15). Care for the Earth, then, is a moral obligation for all men and women as children of God. (Pope Francis) As you can...

A headline of a story in the Lincoln newspaper last week was a surprise, but also seemed a bit humorous. I’m sure you’ve heard of the bird flu outbreak that has killed more than five million birds in Nebraska alone in the last year. Well, the hea...

Memories . . . With the Lawrence community working to replace a much needed place for community events, every so often I get comments about what all happened in the Lawrence American Legion Hall over the years. It seems that most memorable moments co...

You can thank my brother-in-law for the beginnings of this week’s story. I was influenced by a small joke I came across in a publication he sent. My thinking went something like this: Unless you’ve been living in a cave someplace without TV, new...

It wasn’t quite April yet, but the rain last Saturday was a welcomed event. In looking over the NRD reporting site, there was only two times we received an amount higher than Saturday’s rain. There was a rain in January equal to this one and the...

The words “earthquake” and “Nebraska” are not used together very often as the earth shaking events are a rare occurrence in this great state. However, they do happen in Nebraska. The latest we know about happened just before midnight last Thursda...

Community Fundraising, what a turnout. One of the selling points of living in “rural” Nebraska is the tradition of neighbors helping neighbors in times of trouble and in good times. In an accompanying article in this week’s paper, you may read about...

“There’s never a good day for a funeral.” That little phrase was coined many years ago and is as true today as it was when I first heard it. I bring it up today only because we attended funeral services of a niece Monday and it was an amazing event...

I can remember one of the professors I had in college whom I had for several different classes. He always liked to ‘criticize, correct or otherwise question’ the context of whatever text book we were using for that course. After a while, someone fin...

Sorry folks for missing last week. I was a bit under the weather and I’ll try to relate what happened to some extent. The week did, however, give me a little time for reflection. A O Over the years I’ve been amazed at the search for happiness fro...

While I don’t know how often, or with how much interest, you keep track of the various legislative bodies that affect your life, I try to keep up ‘somewhat.’ I mean our Democratic Republic demands a lot. We have the federal, the state, the county, th...

Growing older . . . I don't like to admit that I'm "Old" as I just don't like the sound of it. It's OK for everyone around me to be "Old," but I'm just getting older. The restoration of Sacred Heart Church in Lawrence reminds me that I'm "older"...

Icicles . . . Gosh, haven't used that term for quite some time in the past few years. Duane Brockman had a nice picture of icicle with a barn in the background on Facebook last week. Then, with a little melting and freezing of the ice and snow on...

Folks . . . you just have to keep a ‘Sense of Humor.” I’ve encouraged this ‘virtue’ for many years. You never know when you need it. Last week, for example, in some news story, someplace, I read the phrase: “Think Tank for President Biden.” I t...

Democracy on display . . . If you watched any of the national news on TV last week, or even looked at a newspaper, most likely the top story was the election of a “Speaker of the House of Representative” in the U. S. Congress. Republicans have a nume...

Happy New Year. Hope 2023 is off to a good start for all of you. There are millions of reasons to give thanks for our benefits while starting this year, 2023. There are also probably as many reasons to worry about the future as hardships are sure to...

No. 52 . . . look forward to that number every year. For people in the weekly newspaper field, it usually means we’ve lived another year. Some years there are 53 Thursdays, but we just don’t worry about those years. Happy New Year to everyone, May...

Merry Christmas ! ! ! I hope everyone has prepared to celebrate the birth of Jesus and all that goes with it. I’ll grant that some people maybe go overboard with activities that are not directly related to the real reason for Christmas, but do tie i...

Over the years a number of different people ask how I keeping coming up with subjects to write about. I surely don’t have a method, but something always happens to come up and sometimes there are just too many to write about and I don’t get it all...

My deer hunting experiences over recent years has always been with a son-in-law. We’ve had our share of success . . . and failure. I can remember a couple of years when we saw “NO” deer at all. Well, I can report for the 2022 deer hunting seaso...

We’ve been spoiled folks. So many of us have been familiar with “instant gratification” that when we don’t get it, something is wrong. That concept is so common, we don’t ever realize it any more. A prime example was the election last week. We...

Seems like “Deja vu all over again,” as Yogi Berra like to say. I’m talking about our trip home from Hastings last Wednesday afternoon. We were still a ways north on Show Boat Road when we saw a dark cloud hugging the earth east-southeast of Lawre...