Just a brief afternoon note (for no good reason) about taxes on gasoline. For years I have been crossing the state line from Kansas to Miss...

Saw an interesting interview this morning on Morning Joe with NY Times columnist Bob Herbert about his recent column titled We Owe the Troo...

I remember the unofficial mantra of the 1992 Clinton Campaign - "It's the economy stupid!"  It was an effective slogan that t...

Ever wonder why some people seem to get a perverted sense of joy out of the negative things in life? It seems that witnessing the hardships ...

Sadly, I am old enough to remember a time when our family did not own a television. This cartoon reminded me of that day in the mid-fifties...

This week brought the issue of people assaulting people based on hate front and center as we all heard this story: Michael Enright, a 21-ye...

I know that you have gotten these emails for a number of years.. you know.. those ones that end with bossy statements like: If you are a re...

Do you follow the news via an eReader? Or are you a cable news junkie? Are you on your smart/cell phone all of the time? If so consider this...

Last month I got a new Missouri driver's license.. the first time I have not had a Kansas license since 1976.. and yes Kansas City is in...

Just when you thought that it was safe to put an ad on your blog Philly wants to get in on the action. Consider this clip from a CNN Money a...

Thanks to Time Magazine I just added a new word to my vocabulary and to my online spell checker - Islamophobia. And, as usual, I thought t...

Another day passes - It goes by so very fast... The hours, the days, another week... Her care unselfishly given, the mold is cast... But ...

Anyone who really knows me knows how much I love poppyseed bagels from Einstein Brothers - I consider those round things, with a schmear of ...

Have you noticed my sidebar image these days? I love how "Nothing is Written in Stone" is actually written into the stone. Ever h...