Leopold has been my home for my entire life. While I have moved once, both of houses I've lived in have been in this little town. And of course, that begs the question: What is your definition of ...

As summer comes to an end, we are looking at our new routines of school drop-offs, watching the grandchildren play in their favorite sports and saying goodbye to our RiverWalking exercise at Cape ...

Jayne Ervin, owner of Jayson Jewelers, grew up in Cape Girardeau with a city grandmother and a country grandmother. She says her city grandmother, Grace Erlbacher Dace, was a classy lady, always ...

The assignment: 500 words about a billboard, which is about a meme, which a TikTok video was about before it made it into a meme I was on the road again, in the middle of the 3,000 miles I would drive ...

In 1866, a gentleman and his family by the name of Gonner came to America. He was a talented civil engineer who was born in Pfaffental, a suburb of Luxembourg. Choosing a career as a construction ...

I have been fortunate in different ways. One way is having experienced photography as it has developed and evolved throughout the past few decades from film photography and darkroom printing to ...

I found a crawdad in the pool and thought I knew what I should do. I fished him out and took him down across the street to a little pond. The pond seemed like the perfect place for a lonely crawdad to ...

YEARS AGO In 1974, President Gerald Ford was of a very forgiving mind. On Sept. 8, he pardoned former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes committed during and after the break-in at the ...

"I've lost it all," we say, and our shoulders drop and we panic.Waves of despair wash over us. Rachael's child failed to graduate from high school, Jim lost his business and Carol was fighting cancer.

The subject matter here consists of a grasshopper, a sunflower almost in bloom and a farm tractor in the background. The tractor is hooked to a machine called a round baler. I found this scene near a ...

My parents and Marge's parents were born in the early 1900s. Both of our parents grew up around settlers who moved to the Sandhills of Nebraska to start a life there and hopefully a better life. My ...

"He was on our radar." How many times have we heard that after a mass shooting at a high school or a shopping mall? We heard it for the umpteenth time again this week after a disturbed 14-year-old kid ...