Opinions

One of the first events I had the chance to attend when I first came to the community was the Boone Central Choral Clinic performance. I come from a musical family, and my kids all love music - from my college age one down to my kindergartener.

No doubt some eagleeyed Press readers will notice some slight changes in the publication this week. Unfortunately, with the new Nebraska minimum wage, printing costs and postage costs increasing, my smaller publications are going to become slightly more expensive in the near future.

I love a good survey. The chance to explain or explore a thought or a criticism or a helping hand is too much for me to bear sometimes.

This year I got a exposed to a new holiday - Festivus. It’s not really new, and it’s not really something that I didn’t know about - I just hadn’t realized people had put it into real life after watching it on Seinfeld.

I’ve warned folks for nearly two decades that there will be a relatively large black hole of information that we rely on now and really love to read in newspapers. The advent of social media was a really neat thing - it’s been really neat for 20 years, but it has been, hands down detrimental to newspapers and community.

My son’s basketball coach is new, and, I think, because of that, we actually got to spend some time together as a family over Thanksgiving. It was a great thing.

It’s been a full year, give or take, since I went into the hospital last November. It was a harrowing experience, and not one I’m hoping to repeat any time soon.

A new adventure for me when we took over here in Albion was the idea of these large-scale, every door direct mailings. You’re allowed two of such things by the Postal Service each year, and it’s quite a feat, but if I could do it every week, I’d certainly try.

Enough years ago that it seems like a completely different lifetime - I once made a run for political office. I doubt anyone remembers, it was rather uneventful, I was soundly defeated by the incumbent at the time, and life moved forward as it was doing, and for the better for the service of all those involved.

I love western movies. There’s been a rush of reinvigoration about western tales – and I really appreciate the stories that are now being told from other points of view sometimes.