Babysitting a 4-year-old boy is not for the faint of heart nor for anyone who hasn’t spent at least six months training for a triathlon. Toddlers are perpetual motion machines. In addition to constantly being on the move — a toddler never walks when he or she can either skip or run — ...
We’ve been learning about Karl Porisch’s Vietnam service, piloting Marine CH-46 helicopters out of Marble Mountain Airfield south of Danang. He recalled that night medevac missions were challenging because of limited visibility; the urgency of emergency medevacs; and the greater likelihood ...
For this column, I often share social news or the gossip columns from the old newspapers. The social news is always fascinating to read and a lot can be learned of local people and events from the communities in Lyon County. For this article, I’m going to share the classifieds from one of the ...
I came across a quote in the past week, one that links the training of children to the realization of ambition and future potential. For the most part I think it’s a great thought. I would just make a change with the first few words. I would take out training and insert the word ...
This might be the best time of the year. Believe me when I say I’d like to write about spring or planting or baseball. Then I saw a picture. There was Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, standing in front of a prison in El Salvador. Behind her, behind bars, were a few dozen men, ...
Patients that psychologists frequently encounter are people who are cutting themselves. Cutting is a form of self-mutilation. Cutting is not the only form of self-mutilation that people do to themselves. They may also burn themselves, pick pieces of skin out of their body, pull their hair ...