Opinion

My wife is a trooper. To say Jordan is injury-prone is a slight understatement. Where she provides an overabundance of beauty, brains and entertainment, she has an equal excess of clumsiness, bad luck and low pain tolerance.

Last Friday night, our football team enjoyed a big homecoming victory over the Springfield Catholic Fighting Irish on a beautiful fall evening in the Ozarks. The crisp, cool air carried the earthy scent of the freshly mowed grass and the beginning of fallen leaves throughout Wildcat Stadium.

“Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the Glory of God? Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up His eyes, and said, Father I thank thee that thou hast heard me.” John 11:4041 Wow! What powerful four words Jesus said, “Father I thank thee!” Before He received the miracle, before He received what He has asked for, He thanked the Father.

Not long ago, I found myself on the other end of the phone being interviewed by a freelance journalist working for a national news website. One of the questions he asked me was, “What do you see as the state of newspapers in this country today?” I have been in the newspaper industry professionally for 12 years now and been asked that question time and time again, but now as a publisher and owner of a smalltown weekly newspaper, it hit me a little different.

“It’s too hard.” “I just can’t cope with this.” “Too many people around me in this room. I need to get out of here.” You know the feeling.

I almost lost my flies last week at the Fun Time Shows carnival at the Stumpff Family Event Center. The family and I were excited to see so many rides and games set up over four days, and we made sure to just about all of them.

Did you know that in addition to September being the start of the fall season, it is also Fall Prevention Awareness month? Falls can happen to anyone, and this is what happened to me. The worst fall I ever had occurred when I was a sophomore in college.

My eldest daughter loves to check the mailbox. Searching for anything addressed to her — or any kind of package addressed to anybody — her excitement builds when she finds something out of the ordinary, sounding like a record skipping when she repeats, “Can I open it; what is it; what is it; can I open it?” Such was the case on the afternoon of Sept.

With the recent uptick in criminal activity in the past few years, you can’t help but wonder “Was it ever this bad?” One solution to deterring thievery during the first part of the last century was to form chapters of the Anti-Horse Thief Association in Barry County.