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FRED FIRST: So Far We’ve Come, So Far to Go

A year ago, I pondered what life would be like after we’d had six months to adjust to our new life setting in Missouri. Now I know, with some...

ROBERT L MARONIC: Trump’s Not Sharing Intelligence With Ukraine For A Week Was Gratuitously Cruel

President Trump‘s public decision to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine on March 5 was gratuitously cruel. This...

BOB BROWN: The Lifestyle You Live Influences Your Brain

COL Tate, Chief of Chaplains at a military installation, was referred to Mental Health for...

FRED FIRST: Turtle-Rabbits in Mid-Missouri

I saw my first three-dimensional nine-banded armadillo this week. We saw them 50 years ago,...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s Deal For Ukraine’s Rare Earth Minerals Is A Big Gamble

I read a prescient and insightful column in the New York Times by Gracelin Baskaran on March 4. It...

Shameless John Rosemond Promotion

by Keith McCurdy It is always refreshing to hear someone else talk about parenting, especially when he makes good sense.  I have enjoyed getting...

Beware of the Middle Man

by Keith McCurdy Just recently, a parent came in with much frustration.  She described in great detail the ongoing conflict between her teenage daughter...

My Vice From The Past

by Mary Jo Shannon People who know me are often surprised to learn that I used to smoke. I suppose it seems out of...

In Animal Kingdom Bigger is Better and Artificial Augmentation is a Key to Success

by Mike Keeler But in this case we're talking about birds, not humans.  In a recent study, Spanish biologists were investigating the nesting habits...

Recipe of the Week: Noah’s Winning Muffins

by Leigh Sackett Well Sunday was one of those perfect days. It was fairly warm and my son responds like a butterfly -  the...

A Character With Great Character

by Jon Kaufman As a child, while sweating it out in my dentist's waiting room, I would often read back issues of Reader's Digest...