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Life Was Harder Then Than It Is Now

RYAN, Iowa — On a spring morning many decades ago, four children walked down the road to the neighbors’ house to be there while their mother gave birth to the family’s fifth child. The neighbors in this part of Hazel Green township are far apart. Between the houses are fields yielding such crops as corn, beans, and oats. By the time the children got to the neighbors’ house, they could turn around and go home, because their new sister had just arrived. Margaret Chrystal was named for one of her grandmothers, who was named for one of her grandmothers. Life in general was ...

No Bailouts For Open Borders Globalists

No. No. No. No. No. The answer from the American people across the political spectrum to the airline industry’s plea for a $50 billion taxpayer-subsidized bailout in the Age of WuFlu must be “Hell, no!” times 50 billion. Why should working-class American citizens being laid off from restaurants, bars, grocery stores, ports, gyms, entry-level service jobs and gig economy contracts rescue one of the beltway swamp’s most powerful corporate lobbies — backed by the planet’s third-richest mogul, Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway multinational holding company owns massive ...

COVID-19 Could Be Deadly For Small Businesses

Over the last few weeks, the United States has been grappling with the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic. But the devastating effects have only just begun to surface for the average citizen. While COVID-19 is a very real and dire threat to the health and lives of the elderly and our most vulnerable, its unprecedented impact on the wider economy places us all at risk. The American way of life as we know it could be forever changed unless critical action is taken immediately. Although the U.S. economy has been performing at record highs over the last several years, it is ...

Looking At The ‘Martha Stewart Of Viruses’

I was really late to the coronavirus starting line. I thought the whole thing would last for a news cycle and be gone. After all, how many earth shattering events can we take in a 36-month period? I couldn’t imagine we had room for one more. So, there were many millions of people that got a headstart buying toilet paper and hand sanitizer and I was one of the people standing in a grocery store aisle with a vacant look on my face and an empty cart, as if I were starring in my own dystopian novel. Where was I when the apocalypse came to my corner store? The world is out of hand ...

Approaching The Problem Systematically

The second of these articles taught us more about Aida’s history of pain. She counted several episodes where severe pain resulted in emergency room visits and subsequent X-rays. Each primary care physician follow-up visit discouraged Aida. She began to question whether her PCP believed her stories. Perhaps at wit’s end, her PCP sought a mental health referral. Aida doubted his compassion. She finished her second session by questioning my position. Did I believe her? It was imperative to her that I believed her. What do we do now? How do we proceed? Steven, Aida’s husband and other ...

Keeping The Kids Busy

Whatever we are dealt, we must put up with. Everyone seems to be out of school. Here are some things for you to try when you have to entertain the children. Well, with the cancellation of school for two to three weeks people are going to be scrambling to find things to do with the children. There are plenty of things that can be done at home with little or no equipment. First, I will start with some simple games — probably the children have not played these so new is good. I taught my grandchildren these games when they were staying with me. The first one is the game of cootie. ...