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‘We will let Jesus dry those’

Doing the dishes was a nightly task in my childhood home and one that my siblings and I argued over each evening. Who would clear the table? Who would wash the dishes? Rinse them? Dry them? Put them away? I was the youngest of four children, so I likely was cut some...

A complicated path and a sincere thank you

Today, we officially honor those our country’s veterans. As we offer our appreciation, we should remember the complicated process of how this day came about. World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919. However, fighting stopped seven months earlier when an...

Crunch!

The one word in the above headline describes what happened to my wife’s Ford Explorer when it was T-boned in a parking lot while she was driving a few years ago. The aftermath looked like a stepped-on Coors Light can. She was fine, but the SUV suffered more than...

Worlds apart?

Several years ago, I wrote a column in our Daily Umbrella newsletter that touched on political elections being predictable based on who you would rather sit down and have a beer with. A reader responded to my column and shared a link to a video from Heineken beer that...