My husband and I recently visited the renovated Kansas City Museum. The only building now open to is the Corinthian Hall, which contains memorabilia from the Long family on the first floor and an overview of Kansas City’s history on the second floor. Much of the museum has changed from its incarnation in the eighties […]
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I spent an evening at a local library recently, and from my study room I saw these two fawns and their mother. They surprised and delighted me, but I don’t think I bothered them a bit. They didn’t even look up from their meal. What surprises have you had recently? Theresa HuppTheresa is the award-winning
Last week I got to walk on a beach for the first time in several years. And it was sunset. This photo was taken at Golden Gardens in Seattle. I hope I don’t have to wait several more years for a repeat. When was the last time you walked on a beach? Theresa HuppTheresa is
In the last week, I’ve gone to the movie theater twice — first time since before Covid shut down the country. I saw Where the Crawdads Sing and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. I enjoyed and highly recommend them both! The producers of Crawdads did an excellent job of bringing to life the bestselling novel
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Although I prefer the ocean, I enjoy being in the mountains, too. Mountains show us the grandeur and timelessness of the earth. This photograph is of Olympic Mountains from Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park, where I visited several years ago. You can see the backbone ridges that ran from where I stood out to
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BE ALERT Even when walking down a sidewalk towards your car. Stop to get keys. Notice handicapped ramps, steps, curbs. Don’t lose your footing and break 3 ribs like I did. Ouch! (Doing this in a handicapped ramp is ironic.) Kathy J. PerryCharacter Education Through Story — Planting Seeds for Tomorrow’s Leaders kathyjperry.com/
Photographing nature can be tough. I usually snap a picture at the exact time a bird or butterfly flitters away, and I end up with a blurry image. Or, my camera is confused, and I get a lovely, sharp shot of a leaf or branch–and not my intended focal point! But this happened. . .
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This Fourth of July, my husband and I took a drive in mid-Missouri to see some family farmland. The skies were spacious, though the fields of grain not yet amber. If readers will permit me to mix my song-lyric metaphors, I can attest that the corn was, though not amber, as high as an elephant’s
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When my daughter was a toddler, she was afraid of many things. Santa Claus, Disney movies, and fireworks were just a few of the things she dreaded. She ran screaming down the hall when Santa Claus showed up one Christmas Eve. She would not take his candy cane, nor pull his beard, nor even let
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Several years ago on the Fourth of July, my son was traveling in the Netherlands. He walked past the U.S. Embassy in The Hague. Overcome with patriotism, he took this picture of the American flag waving proudly above the outpost of U.S. diplomacy. He wanted another picture, one with the Stars and Stripes unfurled to
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