Last week I searched the grocery store, without success, for a brand of pretzels I knew had just gone on sale. I asked the nice young man about the pretzels. “Those are on sale this week,” he replied. “We don’t Read More …
Lost Sales
Category: Governance
Stretched Truths
Don’t believe Missouri state government. They really stretch the truth.
Outsmarting Squirrels?
One afternoon this spring my wife found a Charlie Brown style tomato plant, small and yellow, on sale for $1.00. She replanted it into a nice pot, gave it a great spot on the deck and watered it every day. Read More …
American Con Games
The frail looking white haired woman waited, in the airline’s wheelchair, for pre-boarding for the flight from Houston to St. Louis. She never smiled as the young airline worker took her onto the jet. At Lambert the woman again had Read More …
Squishy Missouri
I would rather be with the people of this town than with the finest people in the world. Mayor Deeb Roxanne, 1987 My wife and I handled my mother-in-law’s grocery shopping this week. Her store began as an A Read More …
Moonlight and Fireflies
The full moon cast shadows while hundreds upon hundreds of fireflies lit up the tangle of brush next to the creek. My late evening walk Wednesday night took me down Cliff Cave Road, towards the park. I walked that area Read More …