Opinions

After my medical escapades almost a lifetime ago now, my wife purchased me one of those watches that “watches” you. It tells the time, and the stuff, for sure - but it also tells me how many steps I’ve taken for the day.

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.

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 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 love doing newspaper work. It’s a perfect blend of “stuff that’s always new” and “stuff that’s always the same.”

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.