Longtime TV watchers of "a certain age," as we say, might remember the 1970s comedy and variety program "The Flip Wilson Show." The show featured a live ...
My brother-in-law Matt has worked for United Parcel Service for 35-plus years. A standing joke of Matt's is that he now works for Amazon. It's a sentiment ...
Perfect light We make it ourselves this time of year - and celebrate True, celestial, scientific winter, as defined by the sun and Earth, arrives on the ...
It's the most wonderful time of the year, and that means cookies. Be honest with yourself: You know you like a good Christmas cookie, even if you promise you ...
The decision by a couple of high school kids on a school dress-up day to wear long white robes with hoods that reminded some people of Ku Klux Klan attire was ...
It's getting mighty close to Christmas. So if you don't have time for shopping now, there may still be a gift beyond measure you can create for someone you ...
One of our informal sources of what people are talking about around town comes from our front-counter at 421 E. Main, where at least a couple dozen come in to ...
Happy holidays? Not for everybody. Not always. The joyous nature of the holiday season is invigorating and inspirational for many of us, but not everyone sees ...
There wasn't much exciting going on in Crane Hall at the University of Wyoming back in the 1970s.It was a throwback dormitory without individual sinks, no ...
Not even winter yet Strictly speaking, it's still autumn. But that season gave up all pretense some time ago, opened the front door, and let winter hustle ...
From local business owners I often hear a lament that is reflected in comments by business people across the nation as we travel. "You just can't find good ...
Commemorations and observances this week in our state are noting the 150th anniversary of women's suffrage. Suffrage is an old-fashioned word which simply ...
True, celestial, scientific winter, as defined by the sun and Earth, arrives on the shortest, darkest day of the year. It's happening today. It's our darkest ...
Driving back from Wyoming to Iowa a few weeks ago, I put on some holiday music. I used the online app Spotify to choose it for me. It can create lists of ...
What do you do when you don't get to complain about the thing you wanted to complain about? You complain about it. The chairman of the House Committee on the ...
It's cold, of course. Yes, the roads probably are slick. And it gets dark almost before the sun goes down this time of year. In spite of it all, this still ...
I've been in love with you all along. It started 10 years ago, when I reached for a mug on the topmost cupboard. The usually effortless stretch that ...
Check out the number of donors and volunteers who gave of themselves to make the annual Key Club Thanksgiving meal deliveries succeed again this year at ...
Wintry pre-winter About six weeks ago we posed a simple weather question. When the record-setting cold snap arrived in the last week of October -- barely a ...
Twenty years, and more than a thousand columns ago, I wrote about taking my son Brian on his first deer hunt. The differences between a 13-year old boy and a ...
No one has ever counted exactly how many letters Santa Claus we've published through the years in our annual Christmas greetings edition. Not to get too ...
q Often there isn't enough good stuff to supply a whole year. If you're doing any holiday shopping or gift-giving in the next few weeks, particularly for ...
We are just about at the end of the week. Soon we will be nearing the end of a month. We are almost at the end of the year. And one more thing: We are ...
Recently, I read a magazine article on "Late Bloomers" suggesting that "blooming" has no deadline. I like that. Gives me a chance to overcome my ...
By now, many readers have seen the startling video footage of the three citizens in London who confronted a knife-wielding terrorist on London Bridge. They ...
On to the Judiciary Committee And, some tickets remain for Saturday's Bar J Wranglers show The 300-page impeachment investigation report on Donald Trump ...
White Thanksgiving The headline over our main news photo on the front page today says "Digging out." No translation needed there. Thanksgiving week 2019 ...
