Opinion

Body Recently, I was in the hospital getting prepped for a heart procedure. After a stroke in September, they found a hole in my heart that had probably caused it and needed repair.

Body One of the hardest parts of growing up isn’t paying bills, balancing a career or learning how quickly life changes. It’s realizing no matter how hard you try, someone is always going to walk away unhappy. As children, we are taught working hard matters.

Body Every Fourth of July, there is one tradition I look forward to more than just about anything else. For years, my daughter and I have packed up each Fourth of July and headed to my dad’s condo at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Body Watching a child try something new for the first time is exciting until it isn’t. That realization came while sitting in the bleachers at my daughter Aurora’s first cheer clinic.

Body Somewhere along Highway 10, a horse named Olivia and a donkey named Newton are living perfectly normal lives, completely unaware that they have become celebrities to one little girl. At least, that is what my daughter says their names are.

Body Some guarantees in life are unavoidable: taxes will come regardless of preparedness, Missouri weather will unpredictably include all four seasons within a week and if anything goes wrong in my life, my mother will probably blame it on energy drinks.

Body Long before the dangers of asbestos became widely acknowledged, this natural mineral had already secured a powerful foothold in the industrial and military expansion of the country.

Body There is something humbling about realizing you have officially become the person you used to quietly judge. For years, I was proud of the fact I had never watched “Game of Thrones”.

Body Dear Editor, An all too common scam has arrived at the virtual doorsteps of the members of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in Excelsior Springs.

Body Senate Bill 1602 is intended to provide MU Health Care with the benefit of a legal doctrine known as “state action immunity.