- Beal: Being fashionable just isn’t my style
- May 9, 2012
- I freely confess that I make no attempt to keep up with the latest trends in sartorial splendor. Fashion is all Greek (or geek?) to me.
- Beal: How did old age creep up on me like this?
- May 2, 2012
- I just have one question: How did I get to be so old?
- Beal: Traveling across country makes idea of coming home more sweet
- April 25, 2012
- However much one likes to travel, you reach a point when you’re ready to be home. Usually, as is the case now, that happens when you’re about a thousand miles away from all the familiarities and comforts of life around the old homestead.
- Beal: Brisk weather seems to follow vacationers southward to Florida
- 06:09 p.m., April 17, 2012 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- Rubber-necking landlubbers that we are, the first thing we did when we got here was to put our feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Beal: Each spring, same old visitors seem new again
- April 11, 2012
- We don’t have much luck with exotic species, I’m afraid. Other bird-watchers may chalk up an elusive red-breasted bumbersnatch or blue-winged shrike or whatever, but we have had to content ourselves with the normal progression of finches and such.
- Beal: Antique: What’s in a name?
- April 4, 2012
- You know you’re getting old when you go into an antique shop and find things that are younger than you are.
- Beal: Keep friendships fresh
- March 28, 2012
- The years take their toll, sure enough, and not just in the expected places. I think we all expect that our bodies will eventually fail, or at least that we won’t always be able to do the things we could when we were young… But some things we expect to last.
- Beal: Beginning of spring brings up one question: what to plant?
- March 21, 2012
- It’s hard to fully appreciate the onset of spring when we really haven’t had a winter worthy of the name. Be that as it may, it’s official: the Vernal Equinox, which heralds the first day of spring, occurred at 12:14 a.m. CDT on Tuesday.
- Instate NCAA games were special
- March 15, 2012
- Kansas teams matched up in tournament three times
- Songs conjur memories, if only fleeting ones
- March 14, 2012
- Every so often a song will sort of lodge in my memory, and I’ll find myself humming it as I go about my daily tasks. The songs of our youth transport us back into those times — not carefree times, necessarily, but still times we like to remember all the same.
- Beal: Dust storms of 1930s not so distant memory
- March 7, 2012
- Driving back from a family errand in Nebraska on Sunday, we fought the wind all the way. Stiff north winds, with gusts up to 30 mph or better, stirred up great clouds of dust along Interstate 29; sometimes it was like driving through a fog, but a dry fog of dust. Along toward sunset, the sun was barely visible, a golden orb viewed through the ochre fog.
- Beal: Signs of spring: If not for the garden, would we notice?
- February 29, 2012
- We’ve had such a mild winter, I wonder how we’ll know when spring gets here. Maybe we won’t even notice; maybe one day, we’ll just turn around and the flowers will have burst into blossom and the trees will have put on a new coat of leaves without our noticing any change.
- A parent’s work is never done, but it gets easier
- February 22, 2012
- Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to turn back the clock (well, okay, maybe just a little), and I do relish the relationship I have with my grown children. But I can’t help but feel a bit wistful when I think of the times that their problems were a lot easier to solve.
- Beal: When experiencing freshly fallen snow, new limits apply
- 01:31 p.m., February 14, 2012 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- For the briefest of moments the other morning, I thought I might shovel the driveway. All was quiet, and the world — at least my little part of it — was covered in a couple of inches of new snow.
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