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It's time to join the Diet Club

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Welcome to the Diet Club. This is the comedy club for people who feel the need to diet but would rather laugh about it. The season of excess calories is upon use. All those high-calorie holiday foods and sitting around watching TV during the cold weather will take their toll. Soon it will feel like the laundry water has been shrinking those shirts. But, what the heck, we can always go to the Diet Club! I have to tell you, the recent weather has already cut my exercising down to zip and I’m thick and tired of it. But, it’s all my own fault — even before the holidays have begun I ...

The Spirit of Christmas blesses us

Letters to Editor

Dear Citizens of Webster City, First, I want to thank all those kind souls who have already sponsored an Angel from the Angel Trees located at Kendall Young Library and Peoples Credit Union. The Webster City Ministerial Association is proud to administer this program, and your generosity is ...

Gratitude

Local Columns

This week, as I held my dear friend’s hand, I tried my darndest to focus on gratitude. She is 93 and dying. Frankly, she is looking forward to it. But God hasn’t yet allowed her to cross the threshold from this world to the next and that is testing her patience. She is grateful she is dying, but she would also like to get on with it. I will miss our many conversations over the years we have known each other when one of us says something definitive, to which the other responds amen. There is comfort in knowing your beliefs so parallel those of someone you admire and respect. ...

A Veterans Day to remember

Local Columns

Once in a while, the matter of choosing a subject to write on can become a bit overwhelming. With Veteran’s Day taking place last week and a gathering of our kids and grandkids the same week, I have to admit it was daunting to come up with an individual to cover in this column. So, in ...

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens

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When I learned to read I quickly became a little nerd, reading anything I could get my hands on. It’s amazing what a kid can learn by reading, especially when he finds stuff he shouldn’t be reading. That’s a topic for another column. While I have learned a great deal from reading, I’ve learned even more from listening — to parents, mentors, friends and peers. The earliest bit of wisdom I recall was from my mother. “Don’t tell lies!” she warned as we walked to school on the first day of kindergarten. Her words are well-remembered because I apparently was a bit of a ...

A letter to my daughters on the day after

Letters to Editor

My loves, Today will be one of those days that will be seared in my memory. Someday you will probably read about today in history books. Two of you will be too young to remember, and yet, there is so much I want you to know. You won’t remember how I snuggled next to you last night as you fell asleep and sent a silent prayer into the universe to protect you. You won’t remember the midnight tears as I realized a Harris/Walz win was unlikely. The way your dad held me and told me, “The girls will be okay. We will be safe. We can keep them safe,” and how that only made the tears ...