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 …
Outsmarting Squirrels?
Category: Governance
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 …
“Can’t anybody here play this game?” – Casey Stengel, 1962
An expansion team given the Big Apple to offset the loss of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to California, the New York Metropolitans (AKA Mets) began play in 1962. The Mets not only lost 120 games out of Read More …
West County Democrats Meeting Report – June 14, 2021
The West County Democrats hosted Dr. Kenneth Warren of St. Louis University who discussed the reasons Missouri has become such a red state in recent years and future opportunity for the Democratic party in this region. A video of the Read More …