A New Adventure

TV mistakes that bother me

Published by The Republican on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 2:44pm

People on the internet love to bring attention to errors in movies, some obvious — some not so obvious. 

Personally I don’t have time to watch movies in slow motion to catch these mistakes. And that is the only way most of these can be found.

The value of money

Published by The Republican on Wed, 08/22/2018 - 1:25pm

Schools don’t teach it. One of the most important life lessons we can teach our children is the value of money. Whether we want to admit it or not money is an essential part of life.

Teaching our children the value of money is often overlooked. I think my life is busy now, but it’s nothing compared to when Connie and I were newly married and started our family 30 years ago.

I might consider a new name

Published by The Republican on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:04pm

An odd question has come up since the change in ownership of the Unterrified Democrat — will we change the name? Several readers of the U.D. have been bringing up this question with the staff in Linn. That is something I had never considered.

In 2012 Walt Disney Corp. acquired Lucasfilm, the film production company best known for producing the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. I wonder if anyone asked Disney if they were going to change the name of Lucasfilm to something else?

Empty nester take two

Published by The Republican on Wed, 08/08/2018 - 11:21am

It was four years ago, 2014 when my wife and I became empty nesters. We loaded up the family mini-van and made the 90 mile journey to Columbia and moved our baby girl Abby into Hudson dorm at Mizzou. Four years can go by fast.

That was our third trip moving one of our children into a college dorm. In 2010 we moved our middle child, Ethan, to a dorm at Missouri State University in Springfield.

Some of us don’t know how good we have it

Published by The Republican on Wed, 08/01/2018 - 2:53pm

The 71st Gasconade County Fair is now over, and what a fair it was. Sometimes I think the citizens of Gasconade County, myself included, take for granted our fair. 

My wife’s sister and brother in-law from St. James have been coming to Owensville for this fair since before the 80s. He mentioned to me on Friday that folks in other counties don’t know what a good fair is like, if they haven’t been to the Gasconade County Fair.

The only thing new in this world

Published by The Republican on Wed, 07/25/2018 - 2:58pm

As a purveyor of the written word it is understandable that I love to read. After newspapers I prefer to read books on history. I recently found a quote by Harry S. Truman that helps me explain my desire for history books. “The only thing new in the world,” Truman said, “is the history you don’t know.”

This column will probably offend you

Published by The Republican on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 11:12am

Comedian Don Rickles (May 8, 1926 – April 6, 2017)  made his living by offending others. He was considered “the insult comedian.” In fact, it was a compliment to be offended by him. If he were still alive he would probably think most people today are too thin skinned.

Fighting in the back seat with my sister

Published by The Republican on Wed, 07/11/2018 - 11:20am

Young adults seem to have a lot of freedom, these days. I recently spoke to a good friend whose son traveled across Europe this summer. Our second child, Ethan (just 26 years old) and his wife took a vacation to Jamaica last week. My niece and her husband just spent a year in China.

A topic on the radio a few weeks ago was about the number of high school and college age young adults (it’s hard for me not to call them kids) getting their passports to travel overseas.

How patriotic are you?

Published by The Republican on Tue, 07/03/2018 - 12:23pm

A couple of weeks ago I was cooking some hamburgers on our George Foreman grill for dinner when the phone rang.

To stop unwanted solicitors I broke down a couple of years ago and paid the phone company to add caller ID on our line — something I highly recommend. We use it to screen calls at home. At the newspaper we answer all incoming calls. 

It was a simpler, slower time on the Gasconade

Published by The Republican on Wed, 06/27/2018 - 12:43pm

Summer time is church picnic season. I know that the month of June is not even over (three more days are left) but Connie and I have not been able to attend as many picnics as we would have liked.

So, on Saturday we headed to Zion St. Paul’s UCC in Bay for some good food and good company and of course excellent homemade ice cream.

During the short drive to Bay memories came back when I was much younger and we drove through Bay on our way to the Gasconade River.

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