Opinion

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.

Body We live in a world that encourages us to keep adding words, graphics, features and bullet points. Thanks to AI and today’s content creation tools, it is easier than ever to produce pages of information in just a few seconds.

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 America will soon celebrate its 250th birthday, and while much of the national conversation will focus on major historical moments, famous documents and large-scale celebrations in places like Washington, D.C.

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 For most of my life, I thought the lake was one of the most relaxing places a person could spend a summer weekend. Then I started paying attention to the wildlife.

Body To the Editor, There was a fire at Sunshine Lake in Ray County on Feb. 19 of this year. The fire destroyed four cabins, a fifth-wheel camper and a large boat. One of the cabins was approximately 150 years old.

Body The older I get, the more I realize certain things quietly start making sense in ways they never did before.

Body Every community has people who quietly become part of the reason things work.

Body COLUMBIA – “In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row .... ” So begins “In Flanders Fields,” written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian poet and military physician.