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One of the great things about being young and broke is that it forces you into new situations. After my second year of college, I decided I was old enough to get my own apartment and stay in my …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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8/20/26
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My wife, daughter and I recently took an adventure to Savannah, Georgia. Our home state of Missouri has its own exciting opportunities, yet a fresh take in another state has beckoned us eastward. …
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By Dan Brigman
Contributing Columnist
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8/13/26
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You may have noticed recent articles about the decline of reading.
“The Atlantic” staff writer Rose Horowitch has even posited that the end of reading is here. She mentioned in a …
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By Dan Brigman
Contributing Columnist
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8/6/26
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About a year ago, I wrote down this phrase on an idea list I keep on my phone: “How to get out from under the overwhelm.” Then those words sat there gathering digital dust. I had zero ideas on …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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8/6/26
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As of this writing, massive forest fires are devastating the farms and vineyards of Southern France, Northern Italy, and Spain, as well as a period of excessively hot weather. Among wine …
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By Bennet Bodenstein
Contributing Columnist
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8/6/26
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We got the first batch of them last weekend, and they were perfect. Red, round and luscious. Lined up in a shallow, plastic crate, they’d been placed on a sheet of old newspaper, and my mouth …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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7/30/26
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Landscaping with native plants can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. Just as you would combine annuals, perennials, and shrubs in a traditional landscape, many of the same design …
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By Kathi Mecham
Contributing Columnist
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7/30/26
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Whether we like it or not, winter is on its way and will be here rather soon, and I believe that before it arrives, wine dealers will attempt to decrease their stock of the lighter summer wines to …
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By Bennet Bodenstein, Contributing Columnist
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7/30/26
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What’s the first word that comes to your mind when you read (or hear) invest? Even if you did look ahead to this sentence, I’m betting you would have said “money” anyway. Nine times out of …
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By Joel R. Kurz
Pastor—Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Warrensburg
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7/27/26
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I have hiked the trails, floated the rivers, camped in the campgrounds, and swum in the lakes of Missouri state parks. A division of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Missouri’s …
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By Angela Palmer
Contributing Columnist
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7/23/26
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After being astounded by the recent retelling of “ The Odyssey,” by Christopher Nolan, I left the theater pondering the epic’s effect on my life. The story is generally considered to be 3,000 …
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By Dan Brigman
Contributing Columnist
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7/23/26
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Friends, it’s too hot to work. Too hot to even think about work. And since we’re sweating through the “dog days” of summer, I’m turning over my keyboard this week to an actual dog with …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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7/23/26
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I do not believe that a wine column should be the place for the equivalent of an earth-shaking change in the American way of life, but here it is.
The month of September is becoming the favorite …
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7/23/26
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For many years Warrensburg Church of the Brethren has supported and participated in the ‘Missouri Festival of Sharing.”
This annual statewide fall event was created and promoted by the …
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By Warrensburg Church of the Brethren
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7/20/26
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As someone who studies history and philosophy, I find modern people in positions of power fascinating to behold. Either economic titans or politicians in all their variations become even more …
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By Dan Brigman
Contributing Columnist
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7/16/26
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One time when I was a kid, I was invited to play and have dinner at a friend's house from church. She was the preacher’s daughter, so I knew the whole family. I’d already said an enthusiastic yes …
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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7/16/26
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I hope that the reader will forgive me after my promise to write more often about red wines, but I was recently asked by several wine distributors to sample their recently received rosé wines.
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By Bennet Bodenstein
Contributing Columnist
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7/16/26
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Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community …
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By Dean Ridings
Guest Column
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7/9/26
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I had a 30-minute window of sunlight near the end of a rare, 76-degree day in late June, and I didn’t want to miss it. So I grabbed Mac’s harness and asked if he wanted to go for a walk. He did.
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By Gwen Rockwood
Syndicated Columnist
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7/9/26
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Warm weather is the time when the white and rosé wines are the most popular, and often the red wines receive very little public mention or press recognition.
This is a problem that I intend to …
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By Bennet Bodenstein
Contributing Columnist
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7/9/26
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