Take Time for Living

I noted awhile back that the usual heat and humidity of summer in the Missouri Ozarks hit hard and hit a month or so earlier than usual. Well, as I sit here listening to my neighbor running one of those pressure washers on the sidewalk erasing his toddler’s chalk drawings from in front of his [...]

It’s been a lot of years since I sat behind any classroom desks, or in a college lecture hall even, but I have a student loan problem that’s very frustrating. All of you working to repay student loans, please raise your hands. That many, eh? It doesn’t surprise me. In recent DECADES, most students haven’t [...]

Some months back I grumbled about our “neighbors” and their bright white roof. I say “neighbors” that way because they aren’t actually people who are neighbors — they are an office building sitting in the edge of our otherwise single family dwellings (don’t get me started on our neighborhood zoning issues). They have one of [...]