Opinion
Woman was in a hurry
It was one of those mornings. A morning when the slight, cool breeze humming through the bedroom window, turning into a whisper that softens the brow ...
Feng Shui leads to better landscaping
Regular readers of this column know that we are hard-headed realists when it comes to landscape design. “Form follows function” is our gui...
Can society survive without empathy?
As anyone who keeps a household budget can attest, the unexpected happens all the time. A refrigerator evaporator fan motor fails. Some part on your c...
Any day is a good day to hug Dad
Have you hugged your dad today? Yeah, it’s corny, but just do it. I can’t.Dad died in his sleep one afternoon in 2007. He told Mom he didn...
He just wanted to belong
A woodworker in our town had a little sign posted on his wall that said, “No job too large. No job too small.”The same philosophy served m...
What we as fathers can still do
What can we as fathers do with our remaining years?We can’t turn back the clock. Any and all missed opportunities cannot be reclaimed.Some fathe...
Combating illegal fentanyl trafficking
Fentanyl is responsible for too many deaths in our state and too much of it continues to be trafficked into our neighborhoods from China and Mexico.Oh...
Proper staking starts trees straight
Perhaps it’s our German heritage, but we’re compulsive about training young trees to grow straight and true; in a word: “plumb.̶...
Field needs to be leveled for family farmers
Sen. Grassley (IA) and Rep. Fortenberry (NE) are standing up for family farmers in very tough times. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recentl...
A day of valor to remember forever
Our country just commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a momentous date in history when more than 160,000 Allied soldiers—mostly Americans...
