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Country Music and More By Linda Stowe I have never liked Country music. I used to think it was because the songs were rather simplistic but now I realize my aversion stems from the nasal quality of the singing. It grates on me like the sound of nails on a chalkboard. I have been thinking […]

My eighth year on this Earth was a good one, as I recall.  I was in the third grade.  I played softball in the Summer.  And all throughout the year, I shot baskets in my backyard.   What more could a kid want? Well. Unbeknownst to me, there were a lot of good things just lying

Eyeshadow Wisdom By Linda Stowe Remember blue eye shadow? It was all the rage in the ’60s. One source said the pioneer of blue eye shadow was the Barbie doll, which debuted in 1959. Barbie has blue eyes, so likely the purpose of the shadow was to make her eyes seem larger. Shortly afterward Andy

Have you ever noticed how certain people just pull us in?  It could be anyone.  It is almost like they’re holding up a mirror we didn’t even know we needed. That’s the thing. Most of the time, the qualities we spot in others are actually reflections of what’s already living inside us. Perhaps it goes

Slogans.  They are short and striking phrases that are used in advertising and other things.  They are everywhere.  Slogans can be found in all 50 of our United States. Some are great.  And others?  Not so much. Take Nebraska, for example.  Its tourism slogan is officially toast after five years of chuckling and cringing, and

When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be one of two things, as I recall.  The first was an Olympic swimmer, a gold medalist. I blame this wholly on Mark Spitz and his incredible performance at the 1972 Munich Olympics.  He won seven gold medals, which was a record at the

All of us have crossed a bridge at some point in our lives.  In the physical sense, a bridge might be made of wood, concrete, or steel.  It probably stretched over some river or creek somewhere.  We might have looked over the side as we crossed, thinking about all the things that might have been

Do you think words wear clothes?  Or maybe they hold a picture in your mind?  Like the word lace. Or sugar.  Or cliff. What about the word sinecure (noun | SYE-nih-kyoor)?  It sounds like “sin a cure.” If we could all just sin a cure for all the bad things in the world. That would