By Beth Gulley All the fun Fall Festivals and outdoor activities this time of year remind me that my physical age and my mental age don’t match. My birth certificate says I am 36, but I still feel a sense of wonder, innocence and joy in silly everyday things like I did when I was [...]
By Sarah Dorsett I spent a couple of days over the past two weeks discovering what body coverings were available in Osawatomie. I checked out all the flea markets, secondhand stores and dollar stores. The basics are here at the dollar stores: underwear and socks, for sure. All sizes that my family needs. I found [...]
By Kevin Gray Did you see Larry and Debbie Ratley on television? This is the question I’ve seen popping up on my Facebook site, around Osawatomie or in comments about Larry’s decision to contact Kansas City’s Fox outlet, channel 4’s Pay It Forward people. As soon as my wife and I had finished watching the [...]
By Jeremy Gulley When my brother and I were kids, we loved riding in the car with my dad. He had two speeds, as-fast-as-this-thing-will-go and stop. On the highway, we would pretend we were in a car race, zooming past the other cars; picking them off one by one. We always won, because my dad [...]
By Jeff Dorsett I love Christmas. I love giving presents. I like to try and give the present that people want or need…and they usually don’t know they want nor need it! For my family I scour Christmas catalogs for that educational or unique game, book or gift. And I hate traffic, and time was [...]
By Sarah Dorset Embracing this idea to shop 100 percent locally for the month of September really forces me to simplify our household. And pray that that no major home repairs are needed on a Sunday when most stores are closed! To think about it, September is an easy month to shop: most back to [...]
By Kevin Gray I know what critics say about social networks like Facebook: spending time on a keyboard is instant isolation, your information goes public, cyber bullying and crime’s a constant concern, personality brain disorders, and all that lowered face-to-face communication. But just like anything else, the key is moderation. Negatives aside, social networking comes [...]
The word “cool” is subjective; it can mean different things to different people. People use the word to refer to small things, such as rings that change color, and large things, such as 96 phonograph horns made from recycled newspaper and dryer lint mixed with shellac. But cool is the only word I can think [...]
From the first week that we published the Osawatomie Journal, volunteer help has been vital to our success. Each week since we started, a group of local people have gathered to help us roll papers and deliver them. The process week one took us about 14 hours, now we can deliver papers in Osawatomie and [...]
On Saturday afternoon, Boy Scout Troop 106 welcomed its newest Eagle Scout when Riley McDougal reached that honor. Jeff Walmann spoke at the Court of Honor Saturday and told that crowd that only two percent of those who begin scouting reach the rank of Eagle Scout. It’s a statistic that shows how rare this achievement [...]