By Jeremy Gulley Every year it’s the same thing. People everywhere say that this year they are going to cut back and remember the true meaning of Christmas. Then at midnight on Thanksgiving, people crowd in to Walmart trying to get the perfect present for the lowest price or the lowest priced perfect present. Every [...]
By Jeremy Gulley We didn’t want him to go with us. Not because we don’t like him, but the idea of taking a three year old, who has zero experience hiking and can be . . . um . . . difficult, on a rocky, hilly, sometimes dangerous hike didn’t seem like a good idea. [...]
By Jeremy Gulley For the fifth year in a row, my older son Israel, my wife and I ran the Gobbler Grind half marathon in Corporate Woods on Sunday. This tradition has become one of my favorites. Every year we make a list of 13 things we are thankful for and, since the half marathon [...]
By Jeremy Gulley This week I received a letter from a fan of our newspapers, who was not too happy with me. The reader used the name Fergie Fergie, and wrote: “Recently read another one of your pompous columns,mostly about yourself and now about the games you play with your own children who you seem [...]
By Jeremy Gulley A friend of mine recently complained to me about how difficult it was for him to drop his children at school. “It takes forever,” he said, “there were so many cars, I could barely move. It was awful.” Dropping children off at school can be difficult. Cars line up in a seemingly [...]
By Jeremy Gulley My family is always busy. My wife teaches English at the college level, runs marathons, and is involved in many other activities. My boys are both on the Miami County Vipers swim team, act in the Osawatomie Time Machine, and always find ways to stay busy. For my part, I teach at [...]
By Jeremy Gulley I knew going into the Kansas City Marathon Saturday that things were going to get tough. I hurt my knee pretty severely a few months ago, and that injury put a halt on my marathon training. I knew that the lack of preparation and possible aggrevation of the injury might make the [...]
By Jeremy Gulley Tailgaters are a major frustration for drivers. Tailgating makes us nervous and irritated, and is the cause of many traffic accidents on our roads. According to a 2009 study on aggressive driving produced by AAA, many traffic issues are caused by (among other factors) people “. . . tailgating and pressuring other [...]
By Jeremy Gulley To the students of the 2010 American Literature class at Fort Scott Community College that ended Sept. 24 after meeting five straight Saturdays: During the last five weeks of class, we studied the music and life of Bob Dylan, we read On The Road, by Jack Kerouac, A River Runs Through It [...]
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 [...]