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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...

OK folks, by this time next week, the 2022 General Elections will be history. Will you take part or be a bystander? I only offer a couple of observations this week: The first is early voting. We have always had absentee voting systems in place, but...

I thought I knew what I was going to write this week, but a trip to Lincoln and then back home on Sunday changed my mind. I have no understanding of what the 1930s and the “Dust Bowl” days and years were like, but anyone who was out Sunday maybe got...

It’s that time of the year . . . Time to enjoy God’s beautiful handiwork in making the countryside gorgeous. I have commented on this before, but I’m going to do it again. Father Val Peters, founder of Boy’s Town in Omaha once noted the followi...

November 8, 2022 . . . Election Day. That’s right, a day so many of us set aside every two years to go and vote. However, it seems to me the importance of that day has diminished somewhat over the years. I attribute some of the changes in attitude t...

Technology . . . It can be cussed and it can be praised . . . and depending on the situation, both actions can be correct. Take this coming week for example. Friday night to be sure. The Cornhusker football game is Friday this week, not Saturday....

September harvest? ? ? Most years, the fall harvest didn’t start until the very end of September, most likely in October. However, 2022 may be remembered for how dry it was and how early the harvest began. For a couple weeks we have been watching cor...

People who teach other people to write usually preach that a person should write what he knows, or is most familiar with. Since I’m still learning to write, I’m going with that theory this week. I know I’ve written about some of our medical trials re...

Did you notice last week end? The Cornhuskers won a football game. We had to pay more than $500,000 to get a team into Lincoln that we thought we could beat. We did, but just not in the manner many hoped for. I think it’s time. A O Look how far w...

I can remember well during my years as an EMT for the Lawrence Ambulance Service trips to the emergency room on Friday nights with a boy injured in a football game. Last Friday night I was going to the emergency room when I recalled those trips....

I’m not sure this first story should be printed, but I haven’t seen an event quite like this before, so please excuse me for passing this on. Nancy and I had a good laugh last week on our annual visit to the Veterans Clinic in Grand Island. No, thi...

I enjoy passing along little bits of information I find interesting and hope someone else does as well. Reading the Sunday paper of the Lincoln Journal-Star, I read a story about the city of Omaha using “goats” to clear an area near the Missouri Riv...

Events of the past week have turned my thoughts to things medical. First of all, I ran across a card many folks would call a “Get Well Card.” I never cared for that title, but I understood the meaning and appreciate thoughts conveyed in most of the...

Don’t worry . . . Be happy . . . Don’t know why it took me so long to remember that song. I think it came about in the 1990s. I hope those of you who are of age can remember it. With the melody, it was popular and I think successful. The first ver...

A little trip down memory lane this week. Numbers . . . I may give up watching the national news on TV. It seems that nothing appears on TV news unless it involves many, many people. I guess I can understand that since they cover the world and want...

A couple of short items to start this week. I don’t know about the rest of the area, however, here in Lawrence the community lost electrical power late Saturday evening. As Nancy and I were talking about it later, we could not remember a time p...

“Stupid, smart people . . .” I heard this phrase for the first time maybe a year or so ago. It took me a while to understand what was meant by it. A national radio commentator used it every so often and I had to listen closely to understand just wha...

Red Hair . . . To be specific, “Naturally Redheads” the headline read. I was perusing the Sunday newspaper yesterday when a headline caught my eye. It read: “Natural redheads may need more anesthesia.” A person may not guess that from what little...

The week that was . . . People of different political beliefs have been busy since the end of last week trying to convince other people (or maybe just venting anger or joy) that last week was a week that will be remembered for a long time. I’m g...

I keep getting reminders that I’m most likely included in that category of people that some call “old.” Others, kinder I suppose, might use the word “senior” rather than old. Whatever group I’m in, that’s OK, I’ll go with it. Maybe that’s the reas...

What a relief . . . . These past few months I was afraid the world was coming to an end. Considering the senseless carnage from all of the ‘shootings’, the confusion of letting men compete in college sports as women; watching one of the larger nation...

There are times when we have appointments on both sides of the noon lunch time and we try to catch lunch somewhere in between. Last week was one such time with medical appointments in the a.m. and in the p.m. in Grand Island. As such we found a place...

Memories . . . I spent a considerable number of years volunteering as an EMT for the community of Lawrence and I like to recall memories from those years. They come up at the strangest times and places, and they are both good and bad. However, last...

OK folks, I know some of you getting closer to that retirement age of 62 or 67 or so, don’t like the jokes of joining AARP. Even some of you that have already reached that age, are not wild about AARP. So, last week I learned something new. I have a...