Turkey day touchdown Thursday, November 19, 2009 One of the most memorable episodes of “Friends” came in the third season when the gang played a game of touch football on Thanksgiving Day. It ended with a controversial ...
Shea Conner
A crispy classic Wednesday, November 18, 2009 There are some particularly cozy feelings that come up when thinking about the Thanksgiving turkey coming out of a hot oven. It’s a reliable and undeniable way to prepare the ...
Blake Hannon
An early start Tuesday, November 17, 2009 It started with the little things, like putting milk in the cupboard and forgetting what she had for breakfast. By the time she found herself putting her cigarettes in the ...
Tamara Clymer
Black, white and red for Christmas Monday, November 16, 2009 What’s black, white and red all over? Yes, it’s a newspaper, but it’s being used in a whole new way for Christmas decorating that’s nostalgic, fun and inexpensive. Black and ...
Sylvia Anderson
New to the farm Sunday, November 15, 2009 From the road it looks just like all the farms that surround it. A large, white house sits just off the lane with a dirt path leading to the big, ...
Tamara Clymer
Say cheese Sunday, November 15, 2009 When LeRoy Shatto started Shatto Milk Co. in 2003, he says he never imagined how quickly his business would grow. The Osborn, Mo., dairy farmer managed to not only save ...
Tamara Clymer
Beauty from bottles and sand Sunday, November 15, 2009 Delores Thompson has been getting a head start on Christmas. She sits with a box of small Christmas bulbs before her, a few of them filled with sand colored white ...
Erin Wisdom
Kansas City, here they come Saturday, November 14, 2009 It’s not every day a group of teens large enough to rival the enrollment of a decent-sized college converges upon Kansas City. But it will happen next week, when more ...
Erin Wisdom
All aboard! Thursday, November 12, 2009 There’s a lot of activity going on in Union Station in Kansas City at any given time. Between its numerous traveling exhibits and permanent fixtures like Science City, it’s enough ...
Blake Hannon
Slow cookin' Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Are you one of those people who have a slow cooker but have never used it? If so, you’re not alone. A recent study shows 83 percent of American households ...
Tamara Clymer
A reliable flu fighter? Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Taking Communion this month at Denton (Kan.) United Methodist Church involved three elements instead of two: The bread, the grape juice, the hand sanitizer. Although pastor Nicole Schwartz, as Communion ...
Erin Wisdom
America's house Monday, November 9, 2009 Barbara O’Malley thinks her husband, Patrick, can do about anything. Patrick says that’s just because you can’t see all of his mistakes. Visitors on this year’s Holiday Homes Tour in ...
Sylvia Anderson
The Difference Maker Sunday, November 8, 2009 In the back of Border’s bookstore on a chilly Saturday morning, six women are talking about life over coffee and pastries. The women, ranging in age from 30- to 70-something, ...
Sylvia Anderson
Where have all the nursing caps gone? Sunday, November 8, 2009 Elaine Greer remembers how one of her classmates in nursing school got secretly married. “If they found out, she would have been kicked out of school,” Mrs. Greer says. “Nurses ...
Sylvia Anderson
All aboard Sunday, November 8, 2009 Locomotives sit on the rails ready to haul their heavy cargo. Passenger cars wait at depots for their travelers to board. And a red caboose races to keep up with ...
Tamara Clymer