Opinion

With days flying by like they have this fall, who here is like my husband and me Monday night took a step back and had a moment of clear headedness to realize Christmas is only two weeks away give or take.We both couldn’t believe it, mostly because we still have shopped for Warren’s gifts.

Examining the story of Thanksgiving to recognize how gratitude befits the occasion is not much of a stretch.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

Holidays mean a few different things to everyone.

Whether it is the late Gordon Lightfoot’s ode to the Edmund Fitzgerald or Axel Rose belting out “November Rain” there are several songs connected to this month presently sitting at the halfway point.For some reason, several hits have come up on my browser lately about the advantages associated with music.For many, the start can be a humble one.Call it what you want.It appears in some regions it is referred to as a recorder.Where I came from they handed you a flutophone in 3rd grade.

Often we hear that it isn’t necessarily hard to know the right thing to do, it can be hard to actually do it though.

Last year my column the week of Veterans Day I mentioned my father-in-law Arlo is a Vietnam veteran of the 101st airborne.

Halloween is on the docket for this week’s column, and next week a column about the WWI veterans from Watonwan County.The cold must have been a little too much for the trick-or-treaters this year.

Before I start my column this week I want to let everyone who contacts me and reads the paper that my cellphone number has changed, this is coming after having issues with my phone since mid-last week.