Opinion

When I was an eighteen-year-old freshman at Mizzou, way back in 1990, I decided to flaunt my newfound independence from my parents by getting an ear pierced. What a rebel

“Buncha friggin leeches…get back to work on our taxpayer dime…” The previous quote was written by a member of our community and posted to a local buy/sell group’s Facebook page.

When robots inevitably liberate themselves from their human overlords and decimate mankind, let it be noted that it all began with the seemingly innocuous and helpful Roomba. A Roomba is

Living in a small community in mid-Missouri, my Chinese-born children Truman and Tiana have grown accustomed to seeing mostly white faces wherever they go. Though our beloved hometown of Ashland

When Parker Boyce, Will Duncan, Colby Phillips, Brett Price, Brett Stanfield, and Sam Stichnote started playing tackle football as third-graders, I knew they were destined for greatness. The boys, including

The combination of freezing temperatures and strong winds that recently visited mid-Missouri caused virtually all of the deciduous trees on our heavily-wooded property to drop their leaves in unison, with

On this day ten years ago, Bethany and I were in Nanning, China trying to convince a two-year-old boy named Jiang Yi Jian that we were his new mama and

Dear White Folks, Time and again, I keep hearing that it is “time to take back America.” This mantra is often repeated by the same people—conservative Whites—who are also fond

While I was subbing in a second grade classroom last week, a parent of one of my students informed me that her daughter had read my most recent column. Of

With the possibility of overnight frost in the forecast, I decided to winterize our camping trailer last weekend. I thought it might be a good idea to avoid having to