Insights & Guidance for Planning Ahead

I arrived at about 2:50pm for my first 3:00pm middle school football game. My youngest daughter, Rachel, started cheerleading this year. I discovered I was too late! In Hays, Kansas, the stands are packed 10 minutes before a middle school football game. There were about three seats left or standing room only. You could not see the game from any of the remaining seats – and my wife and mother were scheduled to join me in 30 minutes. I never expected middle school football woul

My first column that I ever wrote was for a periodic called the “Kansas Senior Times.” I was asked to write articles of interest to older adults. After some deliberation, I decided to call it “Gray Matters.” My thought was that though we are older, we still matter. And there are topics that matter to us. And the gray matter, “our brain,” has so much stored in it by way of knowledge and wisdom, that it needs and should be shared. Now, to the 2024 election. A few years ago,