Osawatomie High School’s Language Arts teachers work hard to teach students the basics and beyond of language, literature and communications. Red White and You, the 1987 Osawatomie High School annual, reported “Nouns, appositives and verbal’s, they all come flowing from text books through kindergarten to 12th grade. They abound in the language and literature classes [...]
A long time ago, in a land far away, I went to high school. In fact, I changed schools four times during my high school career, and I also changed countries four times. And no, if you are like me and taking a second look at that word, I did not write counties, I wrote [...]
I knew I would be traveling several times in the next few months, so I went to Target in search of a good book to read on the plane. I wanted something I could relish, not something instructional like the scholarly articles I also planned to read on the plane. Some books are like a [...]
I read this great story on my favorite Web site, onlyfunnystories.com this week. It is a great reminder about how easily children are influenced, and how they always say the wrong thing at the wrong time. A family excitedly bought and moved into their first house. The house sat next to a vacant lot. One [...]
What a new world I found – me the suburban kid – when my parents first brought me to Kansas State College of Pittsburg in 1971. No more colonial influenced red-brick ranches or split levels, no more strip malls and fast-food chain restaurants on every single corner. Something entirely different hit me, the Virginia kid, [...]
By Beth Gulley When I was ten I flew in an airplane for the first time. I had never been in an airport before that day. When I was eleven, I experienced another airport related first. My family took someone to the catch a plane early in the morning, and we got to eat breakfast [...]
By Jeremy Gulley I sat with forty people in the unseasonably warm October air and watched people shiver in the obviously cold water of Miola Lake. They had come to be baptized. I think it is important that you know about the church I attend. It meets in the lobby of the homeless shelter in [...]
My coffee story this week starts with Stone Soup. Do you remember the story of Stone Soup from your childhood? A weary, hungry traveler fills a cooking pot with water and a large stone. Then he places it over a fire in the town square. Eventually everyone in town contributes to the “garnish” and flavors [...]
Last week one of my classmates from a creative writing course at UMKC asked the question: what is the weirdest story you have ever heard or read. Here is my answer (and a true story): I worked as a salesman at Montgomery Ward’s in the early 2000s. I had a coworker there named Bob. Bob [...]
“The strained situation in Topeka suggests a new use for Kansas Avenue; too wide for a street and hardly wide enough for a cornfield, it would make a fairly roomy battlefield for the close and disparate fighting to which the Republicans and Populists will doubtless indulge if they ever get at it.” If you think [...]