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Puffs The more things change . . . the more they stay the same. I wasn’t sure how to begin this week as I just came across a couple of items from different sources I would like to tie together that might just help explain some activities of our current political world. First off, from Pope Francis himself: “Division and exclusion come from Satan.” His actual quote was: “Because the devil, who is the divider – this is what the word ‘devil’ means – always insinuates suspicions to divide and exclude.” Keep that in mind as I’m going back in histo...
Well, Jacob is on the injured list again, not sure how severe. I’m going to have to start selling organs to be able to pay to fix his limbs! We are working away at the money pit. I’m starting to feel like that is going to be my story for the foreseeable future. I’ve started to patch and repair plaster. It’s not hard work, just tedious, and there is so much plaster to repair. The texturizing will be the hard part. George is getting ready to install the new furnace. He was working on the electrical, but we ran out of wire and light fixture...
The woman who lives in this editor’s house is trying to tame a stray cat. When I first moved into town, a number of feral cats lived in and around a vacant and dilapidated house that was across the street and down the alley. With those cats on the prowl, a rodent didn’t have a chance in our neighborhood, but that house was removed to make way for the construction of the Superior Public Library. Since then, neighborhood changes have increased the rodent food supply. Consequently, Rita decided to befriend a stray cat with the expectation it wil...
The country roads are busy this week with the fall harvest in full swing but they are also scenic. The fall colors are appearing. Travelers can take time to enjoy the rural fall happenings. Some of the early leafing trees are beginning to show some colors here and there. Some of the cottonwoods are even losing their leaves. The draws in the pastures are featuring colorful wildflowers and plumes of the tall native grasses. Bright yellows can be seen in the Goldenrods, the Fringeleaf Tuckseed, and the thick Maximillian Sunflowers. Blue and...
Writing for the New York Times on Monday, David Leohard said, “COVID’s partisan pattern is growing more extreme. During the early months of COVID-19 vaccinations, several major demographic groups lagged in receiving shots, including Black Americans, Latino Americans and Republican voters. More recently, the racial gaps — while still existing — have narrowed. The partisan gap, however, continues to be enormous. A Pew Research Center poll in August found that 86 percent of Democratic voters had received at least one shot, compared with 60 perc...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: Are there prophets in the world today? A: To “prophesy” in the Bible fundamentally means to “speak under the influence of someone or something else.” It can refer to insane babbling (I Samuel 18:10), speech inspired by evil spirits (II Chronicles 18:18-22), faithfully communicating messages from God (Ezra 5:1), or recording God’s messages, which would eventually become the books of the Bible (Hebrews 1:1). Do any or all of these activities continue in modern times? Leaving insane babbling...
Educational . . . Reading, that is . . . Ya, I’ve always considered reading was a good way to get part of your education. Not the only way, but a good way. And, if you find something you enjoy, the education can be fun as well. I recently said I was enjoying a book on President Truman, his life and time as president. My earliest memory of Mr. Truman came from those who described his time as president in the phrase: “Give them Hell, Harry.” Hearing that phrase for most of my life I concluded he governed in a sort of a “bombastic” way, loud and p...
I’ve been burning the candle at both ends again, and this morning I felt it. This middle-aged stuff is for the birds! It feels as though I’ve been going at it non-stop for the past few weeks and crawled out of bed today on the wrong side, late, feeling like I got hit by a truck. My family keeps calling me a workaholic. I prefer to call it goal orientated. Stubborn comes to mind as well, focused even, possibly insane, but not a workaholic, not really. When I want something, like really bad, I have tunnel vision like no other. I can’t think...
Verna Jane Lewis, 79, of Burr Oak, died Sept. 26 at Superior. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 1, at Highland Cemetery, near Northbranch. Friends may call or stop by from 4 to 8 p.m.,on Thursday at the Megrue-Price Funeral Home, Superior....
I occasionally answer questions about Bob’s Popcorn Palace as people recall buying big bags of popcorn from the stand operated by the late Bob Oglevie. After his stand closed Bob rode his bicycle from his quarters in the Good Samaritan home at the north edge of Superior down to The Superior Express, a distance of about a mile. Here he helped with janitorial duties. He felt sorry for this editor and one day came in carrying a front basket for my bicycle. He thought a basket would help me carry things. He didn’t realize my long legs often col...
Do you have your “Bucket List” written down and starting to cross things off of it? For those who haven’t heard of what a Bucket List is, it’s a list visiting places, doing things and seeing sights a person wants to do or see before they leave this ole world behind. Sounds a little morbid but facing the facts, the appointed time will come, sometimes sooner than later. When I first heard the term Bucket List, it was when my husband and I attended the 2007 movie so named. It starred two seasoned actors, Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The sto...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: Is it sinful to have doubts or questions about God? If so, how can I get rid of them? A: It is not sinful to have doubts or questions about God. There are far too many examples in Scripture of godly believers sharing their struggles with God and other mature believers to think that. Some examples include a man named Asaph who felt that God was being unfair in allowing evil people to prosper (Ps. 73), as well as the prophet Habakkuk who decided he was going to sit on a watchtower until God...
Roadside flowers . . . Jerusalem Artichokes, (or whatever those sunflower looking flowers are), tall Blue Stem grass and Goldenrod . . . ya, it’s autumn regardless of what the calendar says. Roadside ditches have gotten a bad rap over the years. However, for a month or two in the Fall, they take on a special beauty as the grasses and flowers take over and give us a pleasant view to enjoy. However . . . Please don’t stop on a highway and pick any of those flowers or grasses. Last week, just a couple of miles west of Lawrence, I noticed a car...
Last week was eventful! It was homecoming at the high school, so being the paper lady and a senior football mom had me running in circles. Thankfully the other senior mom, yep, there are only two of us this year, was on top of things. She organized everything. I was just required to show up. I offered to help several times, but she assured me she had it all under control. At first, I was a little taken aback by it, but she did an amazing job, and who am I to stand in the way. Besides, I’m better at the “moral support” and “go fetch and carry...
September 11, brings mixed feelings to mind of horror, shock, sorrow, disbelief and even vengeance. It’s hard to believe it was 20 years ago the tragic attacks happened that destroyed the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, part of the Pentagon on the outskirts of our Nation’s Capitol, and later the crash of an airplane as heroic passengers were overtaking the hijackers. Those who remember that day will never forget it. Even though we in the Midwest were thousands of miles away, we felt the pain and horror as we knew our bel...
Monday morning’s mail brought to the newspaper office a subscription renewal from Margaret Houtz of Wray, Colo. Her renewal card reminded me of a nice old gentleman who I had the privilege of serving while working for my father at Blauvelt’s Station. The gentleman was Bill Houtz. My parents said he had operated a truck line bringing merchandise from the city wholesalers to stores in Superior and the surrounding area. I was surprised to learn he had operated a truck line for he didn’t fit this li...
Presenting Biblical answers to tough questions Q: If I disapprove of someone’s lifestyle aren’t I being judgmental? A: Properly responding to the sins of other people is a delicate balancing act, particularly in today’s atmosphere of hypersensitivity. While Christians are sometimes required to share the truth about sin with others, the sins that we ought to be the most aware of and concerned about are our own (1 Timothy 1:15)! If we are going to avoid the pitfalls of hypocrisy, condemnation and self-righteousness we must examine ourse...
9-11 . . . If you watched TV at all this past week (especially Saturday, 9-11-2021) you were fully immersed in the commemoration of the Islamic extremists’ terror attack on the United States on 9-11-2001. That effort to inflict terror on U. S. citizens affected all of us in one way or another. One thing caught my attention as I watched the ceremonies in New York City. That thing was the names of those killed that day. As I understand it, those extremists who carried out the attack were from the area of the world that have a problem with what i...
Editor’s Notebook A dear friend of this newspaper, Bob Oldham, was laid to rest this week in Hastings. Though he left the newspaper’s full-time employ on Dec. 31, 1971, he never stopped looking out for us. Bob began his employment with The Superior Express as a high school student and eventually became a competent Linotype operator. Few people today know what a Linotype is but Thomas Edison classified it as one of man’s seven greatest mechanical inventions. The machine was used to transform molten lead into words used in the letterpress print...
My container garden is overflowing! When deciding to downsize my vegetable garden this year, I imagined my produce would certainly be limited but not so. My farmer husband came up with the idea of using livestock “licking tubs” this year as garden containers, so four tubs were found. He drilled holes in the bottom of the tubs. They were filled with a combination of field soil and garden soil. Deciding what to plant in my limited container garden was hard. It was decided to only plant our favorites and what we would use the most. I was cer...
Q: Does Hell have to be eternal? Couldn’t it just be a temporary ‘time out’? A: There are two reasons why an eternal punishment for sin is necessary. The first reason that hell is an eternal punishment is because sin does eternal damage. We like to justify our sins and cast them in a harmless light. But the reality is all sin is an eternal offense against God (Gen. 4:10; Matthew 5:21-48). It also causes deep and lasting harm to the sinner (Ezekiel 18:30-32), the victim of the sin (Exodus 22:23), society in general (Genesis 6:5), and God’s...
I enjoy passing on quotes from folks that seem to make sense and may even help explain some of our toil here on mother earth. Usually, it is from a well-known person and for either good or bad may help us. C. S. Lewis was a well-known writer of the early twentieth century. However, I have never been real familiar with his writings. However, last week a friend passed along a quote from Lewis that I find helps explain a lot in our political landscape today. It goes like this: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its v...
Where has this year gone! The older I get, the faster the years seem to disappear. In just a few short months, I will be 40... Ok, let’s just say 40 and leave it at that! I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around my youngest being a senior this year. As far as crazy goes, this last week has been just that, Crazy! My days sometimes feel like two rolled into one. For example, I was telling my friend, Linda, what all we had been up to over the last couple of days when I realized I had talked to her the day before, and all I was telling her...
As summer draws to a close, a co-worker is checking things off her Summer of 2021 to do list. After vising 18 Nebraska Passport sites this past weekend, she has only 9 more to go to reach her goal of visiting all the sites on this year’s list. But those nine sites will have to wait at least a week, for this week she has reservations for a hot-air baloon ride. In my student days, I read a Life magazine story about a hurricane which struck the United States and added experiencing a hurricane to my list of things I wanted to do. I had seen f...
Visits to my farm usually takes me through my hometown and out west over the White Rock Creek Bridge. As the high school football season begins, the drive brings back a lot of memories. After I cross the White Rock Creek bridge, I see what once was the high school football field where I attended many football games. It looks nothing like it once did. The tall scoreboard is missing, the goal posts are no longer in place and the bleachers along with the speaker’s stand were removed years ago. The well tended grass that was mowed for the games a...
