Opinions

I really don’t have much else that I know how to do. When I was a kid, there was a Disney cartoon that I really wanted to model my life around - the one where Goofy does a bunch of jobs, one that starts with every letter of the alphabet.

There are a lot of times that have passed in my life that I really was hoping that someone would jump out from behind a pile of crates and yell that the entire thing was actually a huge joke. I don’t handle confrontation well, and though I usually seek it out, I really don’t like having personal conversations in quiet rooms with just a few people.

There are some times in life when you just feel like your hands are tied and there’s no where to go. It doesn’t come up often, but it does depend on your own personal will and motivation to see things through.

Newspapering is a wild world event. Publishers spend lots of time, conventions and talking with each other - trying to re-invent the wheel and find the “next big thing” that will entice readers to utiltize our product.

Everything seems so easy now. Anything we want is a simple click and shipment away.

I’m a sucker for a good auction. I really can’t hold myself back, there’s just something so magical about bidding and then having them call on you and then winning something you don’t really need, but trying to find a way to get it into your car with or without your wife knowing and dragging someone else’s stuff to your house and making it your own.

I wrestled (poorly) in high school, in what seems like a lifetime ago picking up at least some matches in Newman Grove’s gym - I don’t know that we traveled to Boone Central when I was younger. You didn’t miss much by not having me here! I was, historically, a Bstudent in high school, and that always seemed like it was “good enough for me” in a lot of other aspects of my life.

I love doing newspaper work. It’s a perfect blend of “stuff that’s always new” and “stuff that’s always the same.” So much of what newspapers do is ingrained into tradition - we cover the same seasons, the same sports, the same community events year after year after year, and I can almost always tell you what time of year it is by what’s going on in and around the community.

This past week saw some just outrageous behavior on both sides of the aidle. State politics jumped the rails, federal politics jumped the rails and all of us sat glued to our televisions and internet browsers to see who was right and what was going to happen.

As a man, and a husband, and a father, I can tell you that there is a distinct difference between “liking” something and “looking” at something. Men probably get my drift, wives most certainly get my drift, but for the rest of you, here’s the breakdown as I see it.