Opinion

There is something humbling about realizing you have officially become the person you used to quietly judge. For years, I was proud of the fact I had never watched Game of Thrones.

Turning 30 was expected to be a clear milestone, but it felt more like a checkpoint, raising more questions than it answered. For years, birthdays had never carried much weight.

There are museum exhibits meant to inform and museum exhibits meant to matter. The new Vietnam War exhibit, “Not Forgotten”, at the Excelsior Springs Museum belongs firmly in the second category. This is not a display you breeze past. It is detailed, immersive and deeply human. It asks visitors to slow down, read carefully, reflect and sit with a period of history that was complicated, emotional and often painful. Most importantly, it refuses to reduce the Vietnam War or the people who lived through it to a single narrative. Instead, the exhibit does what history should always do: it tells the whole story.

The choice to cancel an entire season of The Bachelorette just days before its debut has attracted widespread attention, but the circumstances leading to it did not start with the show’s cancellation.

There are a lot of ways people choose to spend their free time on the weekends, but in our house, Sundays are reserved for something that probably doesn’t sound exciting unless you’ve experienced it yourself. We go to Red Racks.

Every family game seems to come with a warning label, but Uno may have one of the most dramatic reputations of all. If you believe what people say online, the game has ended friendships, sparked arguments and nearly destroyed families thanks to one simple card: the dreaded Draw Four.

The power of a small gesture It is that time again when most weekends start pointing toward the Lake of the Ozarks. That tends to happen this time of year thanks to my dad and stepmom having a condo down there, which means a few days away from the normal routine whenever schedules allow.