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It’s so easy to forget in the midst of winter’s blanketed paralysis, that cold misery is temporary. As logs burn down to crumbles while our discomfort is…
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Here we go again. From Richard Nixon to Newt Gingrich to Donald Trump, the bias against unbiased news reporting continues. The president recently…
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So wife and I spent a few days out of town recently, which meant we had to deal with that most gut-wrenching and fretful of all issues: What do we do with…
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I’m trying to stay optimistic, weather-wise, but my favorite annual event is coming up in less than two weeks in Winfield...Listen to the rhythm of the…
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“Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your…
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I’ll never forget the evening I performed Chopin’s “Etude in G# minor, Opus 25,” on a $75,000 banjo gifted to me by Earl Scruggs. My concert was a command…
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“Everybody wants to go to heaven. But nobody wants to die.” I’m not sure which blues singer first came up with that line, but it certainly has the ring of…
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You get used to losing things as you age. Wallets. Cell phones. Even my favorite baseball cap disappeared for a couple of months, then materialized under…
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Binge-watching NetflixAnd shopping on AmazonVideos of pet tricksAnd following KardashiansBasketball, football, and Taylor Swift singsThese are my favorite…
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City of Wichita bean-counters are reportedly considering some cuts at CityArts, our downtown facility that provides arts education and instruction,…
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“Birds do it. Jerks do it. Let’s do it. Let’s tweet.”When Cole Porter wrote those lines – OK, the first three words of those lines – he had no idea what…
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Oh, give me a cone where the cars and trucks roamWhere the street work goes day after dayWhere often is heard an offensive swear wordAnd the traffic's…