I’m not sure about you, but one of my favorite things about returning home from the city is looking up at the stars. Returning from college for a break or weekend trip, I run outside on the first clear night and stand, totally absorbed in that
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"Where Fillmore County News Comes First"
Online Edition
Thursday, June 20th, 2013
Volume ∞ Issue ∞
- 8:58:04, Jun 18th 2013 - cabraden1 - I salute you Colonel Overland. Your were my c.o. at Rockville Naval Air ... [Read More]
- 7:10:46, Jun 13th 2013 - chipperlee - Seems to be a well written article, except maybe Silica Sand is used in ... [Read More]
- 12:02:15, Jun 9th 2013 - getthefacts - The problem here lies in the fact that girls were repeatedly told "if y ... [Read More]
- 10:45:32, Jun 7th 2013 - Jo mom for 6yrs - Mr. Ehler hit the nail on the head. I agree with the religious con ... [Read More]
- 2:47:58, Jun 7th 2013 - hello - Hello, it's time you wake up. There isn't a community nearby that doesn't offe ... [Read More]
- 9:06:21, Jun 6th 2013 - hello - Hello, it's time you wake up. There isn't a community nearby that doesn't offe ... [Read More]
- 2:05:29, Jun 6th 2013 - Kim Wentworth - The number one rule in a debate: 1) if the person from the opposite si ... [Read More]
- 12:42:18, Jun 4th 2013 - EW - For someone that is always spouting religious rhetoric, you try to come off as a ... [Read More]
- 11:32:18, May 31st 2013 - JO PLAYER - This is unfair to us girls. Morrie Miller is not getting canceled but J ... [Read More]
- 8:25:34, May 29th 2013 - RP - Why is Mr. Ehler involving himself with non-school activities? Is he going after ... [Read More]
A little of this, A little of that.
Fri, Jun 14th, 2013
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Even Dr. Sigmund Freud admitted that he could not answer his own question about what women want. He researched this question for 30 years and still came up with nada. Perhaps the good doctor should have realized that all women are different. So the answer to this emotionally charged question is what particular woman at what particular time. Since time stops for no one, we are all in transition.
What I wanted at 20 might be the same thing I wanted at 40, or it might not. IT DEPENDS. What a woman wants is not a mathematical equation. In fact, sometimes it defies logic. Maybe that is why sometimes men are so clueless. In the bestselling book, “Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Venus” various differences are discussed such as how men and women remember directions. Men innately feel that they are “the masters of the universe’’ so they never have to ask directions. Men have logic and maps. Women have the big blue house on the left.
Men and women also differ on food choices sometimes. Growing up in a family of women, I considered a sandwich or a bowl of soup a MEAL. My husband did NOT. To him a meal included meat, potatoes, a vegetable, maybe a jello salad, and dessert. In fact, when we were first married, he counted the different types of food on his plate. Ketchup did not count as a food type. Since we have been married for over 40 years, you may assume some compromises have been reached.
You know the saying “Real men don’t eat quiche.” Well my husband didn’t even know what quiche was; but he knew that scrambled eggs were for breakfast and not for supper.
Well aware of our differences regarding food, I started asking him what he would like for dinner. His replies were, “ whatever” or “anything is fine.” In desperation, I consulted his mother. She had cooked for 5fivemales for many years. She said her men had reacted the same way. When she asked them what they wanted for dinner, they replied, “food.”
Then we compared notes about how many meals a woman cooks in a lifetime. She had cooked many more than I had. I figured even if I only cooked l meal a day for 40 years. That would add up to about 14,600 meals. OK, so sometimes they were frozen pizza, fish sticks or hot dogs and chips. (Does relish count as a vegetable?)
Sometimes, I get in a rut and serve the same five menus over and over. Sometimes the question, “What’s for dinner?” strikes fea .....
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What I wanted at 20 might be the same thing I wanted at 40, or it might not. IT DEPENDS. What a woman wants is not a mathematical equation. In fact, sometimes it defies logic. Maybe that is why sometimes men are so clueless. In the bestselling book, “Men Are From Mars; Women Are From Venus” various differences are discussed such as how men and women remember directions. Men innately feel that they are “the masters of the universe’’ so they never have to ask directions. Men have logic and maps. Women have the big blue house on the left.
Men and women also differ on food choices sometimes. Growing up in a family of women, I considered a sandwich or a bowl of soup a MEAL. My husband did NOT. To him a meal included meat, potatoes, a vegetable, maybe a jello salad, and dessert. In fact, when we were first married, he counted the different types of food on his plate. Ketchup did not count as a food type. Since we have been married for over 40 years, you may assume some compromises have been reached.
You know the saying “Real men don’t eat quiche.” Well my husband didn’t even know what quiche was; but he knew that scrambled eggs were for breakfast and not for supper.
Well aware of our differences regarding food, I started asking him what he would like for dinner. His replies were, “ whatever” or “anything is fine.” In desperation, I consulted his mother. She had cooked for 5fivemales for many years. She said her men had reacted the same way. When she asked them what they wanted for dinner, they replied, “food.”
Then we compared notes about how many meals a woman cooks in a lifetime. She had cooked many more than I had. I figured even if I only cooked l meal a day for 40 years. That would add up to about 14,600 meals. OK, so sometimes they were frozen pizza, fish sticks or hot dogs and chips. (Does relish count as a vegetable?)
Sometimes, I get in a rut and serve the same five menus over and over. Sometimes the question, “What’s for dinner?” strikes fea .....
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Tech Bytes - Hitting the paywalls
Fri, Jun 14th, 2013
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The days of hopping on a computer and having open access to literally anything you may be searching for may be dwindling. Now such access is coming with a price tag. Credible sources like widely read newspapers, popular magazines, online tabloids,
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The Working Mom - Mom’s Guilty Little Pleasures
Fri, Jun 7th, 2013
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As a kid, I remember looking in the fridge and being totally grossed out when seeing a jar of pickled herring staring back at me. It got worse when I searched the freezer for chocolate chip ice cream and found, instead, the grownup flavors of map
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Tech Bytes - MOOCs: Satisfying Your Intellectual Curiosity
Fri, Jun 7th, 2013
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For the individuals out there who love to learn for the sake of learning and expanding your intellectual knowledge through educational opportunities, you already know that you can educate yourself in an infinite number of ways, whether it’s throug
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Change is Constant
Fri, May 31st, 2013
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Spring is a time of enormous change. Tulips spring toward the sky, and their colorful blooms command the newly green landscape. Then, before you know it the petals drop, leaving naked stems, and the show is all over for another year.
Apple trees c
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Tech Bytes; Card Skimming
Fri, May 31st, 2013
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Last week at our Journal office we were talking about credit card scams and how common they are in today’s society. We’re pretty much over the up-front face-to-face robbery phase as it’s less work and more convenient for scammers to go digital
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Tech Bytes - Technology Integrated Learning
Fri, May 24th, 2013
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Technology Integrated
Learning
If you go to a school or college today, you’re not going to hear the hard-pressed clicks of a manual typewriter anymore. Odds are you’re not going to hear the faint scratch of a pencil on paper for very much lon
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Overnight Asparagus Strata
Fri, May 17th, 2013
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Asparagus is such a sexy vegetable. Its most delicate taste is in the tips. The French called them “love tips” and served them to the mistress of the king. She was called Madame de Pompadour.
A recipe for asparagus is in the oldest survivin
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