Convenience store and grocery store news racks are not as “captivating” as they were a few decades ago when there were some fascinating “rags” on display. They displayed headlines like “Two-headed Gator-Man eats dentist!” “Spice Girls begin breeding in attempt to create Spice ...
It is 1949 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Capt. Edward Murphy is an engineer working on a project to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. After discovering that a transducer was wired wrong, Capt. Murphy curses the technician responsible for the error and ...
People struggle. But there is a fictional world that wants us to deny this. In that fiction, everyone has a set of bootstraps connected to some miraculous source that, if simply pulled upon, will lift them from their struggles to the magic of prosperity. Folks, that’s a Hallmark ...
Welcome to the Diet Club. This is the comedy club for people who feel the need to diet but would rather laugh about it. The season of excess calories is upon use. All those high-calorie holiday foods and sitting around watching TV during the cold weather will take their toll. Soon it will ...
Dear Citizens of Webster City, First, I want to thank all those kind souls who have already sponsored an Angel from the Angel Trees located at Kendall Young Library and Peoples Credit Union. The Webster City Ministerial Association is proud to administer this program, and your generosity is ...
This week, as I held my dear friend’s hand, I tried my darndest to focus on gratitude. She is 93 and dying. Frankly, she is looking forward to it. But God hasn’t yet allowed her to cross the threshold from this world to the next and that is testing her patience. She is grateful she ...