Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts
Saturday, December 13, 2025

In praise of Large Print books: "Seeing is Believing"

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Wichita, 1962. I read Tom Swift and Hardy Boys books in bed with my Boy Scout flashlight. It was after the parents’ call for “lights out” an...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

The accountants who got us to the moon, July 1969 -- Part 1

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Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo Program. – From the end credits of Richard Linklater’s Netflix film “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Child...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

The story of the dead sculptor's homecoming in Sand City, Kansas

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Great article in the Nov. 12 edition of Flatwater Free Press:  How a 101-year-old linked to Willa Cather altered a small town's future. ...
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Thursday, April 29, 2021

The story of the only 1960 Renault Dauphine in Daytona Beach

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An April issue of UK’s Autocar featured the Renault Dauphine in its list of "22 Totally Charming Cars."  It showed a still life p...
Saturday, September 08, 2018

Part II: The Way Mike Worked -- The Paperboy and the Bully

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The Smithsonian exhibit, "The Way We Worked," arrives in Cheyenne later this month. I thought about my jobs during 55 years, from ...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

In "Interstellar," the future is as corny as Kansas in August

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Imagine that humankind gives up its dreams of space travel to farm corn in Kansas full-time. That’s the kind of boring future imagined ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Mental health crisis makes the news from coast to coast

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Allison Kilkenny wrote in The Nation on Oct. 21 about the rise in suicides and other mental health crises spawned by budget cuts: Threats...
Sunday, January 08, 2012

God says: Keep those hands out of your pockets or risk an eternity in hell!

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I am assuming that this is one of those fake photoshopped church signs (I pulled it off of Facebook). I do remember a seventh grade "...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

Julene Bair in New York Times: Biggest threat to Ogallala Aquifer is corn farming, not XL pipeline

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Julene Bair Essayist Julene Bair moved away from southeast Wyoming a few years back. We still miss you, Julene! Her words resonate, no ...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Rural states will be hurt the most with arts cutbacks

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Kansas Wyoming From today's article, "Arts outposts stung by cuts in state aid," in the  New York Times : ...much of Am...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Kansas is perfect, so anti-abortion zealots come to Wyoming

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Anti-abortion protesters from Kansas are demonstrating in Jackson . From Wyoming Public Radio: The pro-life protest is being organized by...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

Sustainability Summit April 12-13 at UW

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UW has had some bad luck of late with speakers. First Bill Ayers gets the ax and then Vandana Shiva cancels her keynote speech at the Shepar...
Tuesday, February 02, 2010

2011 budget as corny as Kansas in August

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The New York Times provided some much-needed budgetary visuals with Obama's 2011 Budget Proposal: How It's Spent The checkerboard g...
Friday, March 27, 2009

B-ball adds zip to a cold, snowy spring

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This time of year, all talk is about basketball. Sweet Sixteen, college women's hoops, NIT -- and that's all on the college side. NB...
Monday, May 07, 2007

Bush's war makes us all vulnerable

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Imagine a tornado wipes out your town. Imagine a hurricane storm surge inundates your city. Imagine a wildfire burns your town to a crisp. Y...