What is this life if we don't wander to find ourselves?
"We're having a blizzard!" Those were my words last night and I was playing a joke on someone. And today we woke up to snow. A pretty decent blanket of snow. Maybe, quite possibly, I should have not joked about the snow. So, to all the people who woke up to Easter Snow, it's probably... Continue Reading →
Friday I left my career in journalism and will be heading to the "dark side" as us journalists call it. Over the years I've had the honor to cover many stories, events and met some pretty rock star people and gained some lifetime friends. In the last 2 1/2 years as editor of the paper I... Continue Reading →
One of my favorite forms of therapy is driving up and down country roads — for hours at a time. There is so much I see during these drives and so much I would miss if I simply sat on the couch every night. The long, winding roads of Lyon County have become my second home, where I go... Continue Reading →
So, usually I make a huge list of things I want to accomplish in the new year and usually most of those don't get done. This year I took a different approach. I have decided to make 2016 about silver linings. Sure, I have a few goals, like keeping up with my daily thankfuls and a... Continue Reading →
For the third year in a row, I kept a "happy jar" next to my bed and each day I put a slip of paper in it with one "happy" thing that happened that day. I also threw in events and movie tickets. I started doing this after seeing a Facebook post about it. Years... Continue Reading →
This morning I was on my way to work and I was struck by a beauty so simple and so ordinary for our Kansas town. Our local grain elevator, Bunge, was surrounded by grain trucks waiting to drop off their load of precious grain. I kept driving for a second, but was just struck by... Continue Reading →
I haven't been able to do nearly as much as I used to in these few weeks since surgery...major surgery will do that to you. But last night I was able to get out and see the world. I was thrilled to see a road we usually take was open after floods. Finally! They hadn't... Continue Reading →
Today I cleaned out my "favorites" bar on one of my web browsers. It was time to let go of some of those websites. My dad was killed in a house fire and on my favorites bar I had bookmarked the various stories done about the fire. Every time I logged onto that web browser,... Continue Reading →
So, I had a great session with a great group of college students early this evening. If you're reading this, you guys/gals were an awesome audience! But it must be a law or something that says you must have computer woes before a session. I got to the hotel nice and early so I could... Continue Reading →
So I have a confession to make. Here goes. I am a photo hoarder. I was looking in an application I use to back up my photos and I was shocked: in a little over two years I've acquired 10,898 photos. That's 3,979 photos in 2013; 5,613 photos in 2014 and so far, in 2015,... Continue Reading →
The Wandering Pigeon 