By Found this on Julia McBride’s blog… Flint Hills: Meditation from a Kansas Prairie. And more.
Rut-row
This evening, I pick up the paper, The Emporia Gazette of course, and what do I read?? That my peanut butter has been poisoned! That’s a fine how-dee-do! A salmonella outbreak with 288 cases in 39 states has been linked to tainted peanut butter. Guess what I had for lunch? Peter Pan and Great Value …
Hope they bring me a doggie bag
The more things change…
…the bigger the numbers get. It’s the end of the month and I’m paying bills. I still do things the old-fashioned way – I write checks. I used to write monthly checks to KP&L, Kansas Power and Light, for gas and electricity. Well, as you all know, that became Westar Energy. Then there was a …
Happy Kansas Day!
Five or six years ago, Allen Twitchell worked at The Emporia Gazette and wrote the “Culture Schlock” column. In one column he mentioned that a friend had told him, “The best thing about Kansas is the sunsets.” Allen wasn’t quite sure how to take that remark. Was it a back-handed compliment? I’m a big fan …
Kansas Day e-cards
Don’t forget, O People of the South Wind, that you can send Kansas Day greetings to friends all over the planet! What about your friend who moved to Michigan? … That brother searching for gold in California? … Your twisted sister in Nebraska? Those friends and family members who once inhaled the pure Kansas air …
Paul Harris, British Observer, Kansas Day Speaker
Last spring, Paul Harris made a splash in the Sunflower State when he wrote “Ode to Kansas” for his newspaper, The Observer. Harris, a British journalist based in New York, has visited Kansas on various story assignments over the past few years. He spent some time in Ellsworth while writing about the depopulation of the …
On the Horizon
This week’s Flyover People in The Emporia Gazette: “ON THE HORIZON”
Green
Yeah, green. And take a look at the horizon.
A walk in the sunshine
Hello! Remember sunshine? Remember shorts? Remember summer? Yeah, me neither. Nevertheless, welcome to the new Daily News page! We (OK, by we, I mean Dave, the resident computer genius) have now added the ability to accept comments on the blog! I will need to approve your first post and you should be able to post …