Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I always speak to you, my compassionate readers, from my heart. So, I want to tell you that this is the hardest time I’ve had ...

The upcoming week marks this column’s 18th anniversary. I almost can’t believe it. It feels like far longer. It almost feels like I’ve been writing it since … “forever ago.” From church signs to chalk ...

In what might have been 1979, I was invited to a nearby elementary school to talk to students about writing. The children were led into the school gym, where they sat cross-legged on the floor while ...

Saturday was a very cold and windy day, so the men were unable to put the roof metal on the new pole barn. They kept busy doing other work on the barn such as building the sliding doors, putting on ...

Today, I'm handing over the reins of my newspaper column to a fascinating and innovative AI language model called ChatGPT. As a writer, I've always been intrigued by the advancements in technology and ...

Today, you're reading something special: my 150th Bottle Shots column. That many weekly columns may just be a drop in the bucket compared to my predecessor, Lorri Hambuchen, who famously held this ...

Walter Suza of Ames, Iowa, writes frequently on the intersections of spirituality, anti-racism and social justice. It is my dream column. I would have written to say that inside humans’ earliest ...