One of our favorite customers came through the drive-through the other day. We see Lily once a week or so. She’s always so excited to see us. Her eyes are wide, she has a huge smile on her face, and her tail is wagging madly. Oh, did I forget to mention that Lily is a Spaniel?
As a young lad growing up in a Greek family, the celebration of Easter was an important event. However, I often wondered why followers of the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox faith celebrated Easter at a different time than the rest of the Christian world. (For more, check out Greek Americansby David Phillips.) I was simply told that we followed a different calendar. I eventually learned that we followed a modified Julian calendar, while the Western world used the Gregorian calendar. I enjoyed the day of
A couple of years ago, I attended a conference where a speaker told about her blog with lots of book recommendations. I really enjoyed two of these books, and since people ask me, “What do you recommend?,” here are my favorite books about strong women who span the globe from China to the U.S. and back to Israel.
My wife, Vasiliki, was a little under the weather during the recent snow storm and requested that I go shopping for some grocery necessities. Being the obedient husband, I agreed.
My husband and I have lived in Kansas City for almost three years now, and nothing has made him happier than the barbeque options available throughout the city. When we first came here to visit and find a place to live, his only wish was to eat some barbeque. Since then he has become somewhat of a barbecue connoisseur. We have traveled all over Kansas City trying all the smoked perfection that it has to offer. Here are some of our favorites.
This week Mid-Continent Public Library joined the Platte County Community Center in celebrating the groundbreaking of the expansion of the YMCA in Platte City. This event marks the beginning of several months of work that will eventually result in a bigger, better equipped YMCA building, as well as an expanded parking lot that will be shared between the YMCA and the Platte City Branch.
Because I have no children, I’ve adopted two cats as my very own. As such, I treat them as most people would treat their children; they’re both spoiled rotten and get away with murder. Recently, however, one of my four-legged children has been giving me problems. Make that litter box problems.
Without being too graphic, just imagine that my kitty was having some accidents on the carpet. I scrubbed and scrubbed, changed litter, everything I could think of to alleviate the problem. But nothing seemed to work.
One of the great things about the MCPL system is the ability to get almost any item you might be trying to find. With over thirty branches, the Library has almost anything you could want. But every once in a while, there might be something that <gasp> our Library doesn’t own.
Hall of Fame second baseman Rogers Hornsby said, "People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." The Super Bowl is now history and March Madness has not begun, but pitchers and catchers have reported to their respective spring training sites in Florida and Arizona. The rest of the players will be reporting soon to prepare for the upcoming season, with rookies trying desperately to make an impact during this period to make it to the "Big Show."
