December 5, 2025
by Paul Big Bear Dear Friends, Growing up, did you hear these words, “women are the weaker sex?” How about the old joke; “My dad can whip your dad.” “Big deal, so can my mom.” In reality, are women the weaker of the two? Let us go back further to my grandmother, born before…
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Dear Friends, Food, a subject I can really sink my teeth into, sorry it just had to be said, by me. Now, let us get serious, when you talk versatile food is there anything more versatile than milk? First thing in the morning how many of us enjoy a nice cold glass of milk?…
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Dear Friends, I have often spoken of growing up country, comin to visit through the back door into the “mud room” then into the kitchen. The coal stove hot, a pot of coffee ready for drinkin, just set down at the long table with a bench on one side and six chairs on the…
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by Paul Big Bear Dear Friends, Everyone enjoys a good meal, I know I do, breakfast; Cream dried beef over the hash browns with buttered toast on the side, or two fried eggs with home fried potatoes and scrapple. Lunch a big bowl of chili with chopped onions and shredded cheese and a hot…
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Dear Friends, Summer time meant so many things to the youth of the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s summer vacation, riding bikes, fishing, camping, swimming, drive in movies, and best of all, no homework. Then there was Daylight Savings Time complete with a cute way of being remembered “Spring forward – Fall back”. At first…
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by Paul Big Bear Dear Friends, I remember watching Saturday morning TV; we had shows hosted by people that cared about us and wanted us to get an education, encouraged us to enjoy life, and they brought us cartoons that made us laugh, along with the Three Stooges (none of us ever thought of…
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by Paul Big Bear Dear Friends, “Saturday night, bath night!” There was a time when Saturday night was bath night, the whole family bathed, one at a time in the same tub and the same hot water carried bucket by bucket to fill the tub; father first, mother next, then the children oldest to…
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Dear Friends, “Allow me to give my two cents worth.” How many times has someone said that during a conversation as a way of injecting their opinion into a discussion? You may also have heard “A penny for your thoughts.” Why exactly are my thoughts worth only half of yours? Let us take a…
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by Paul Big Bear Dear Friends, How many of you remember Valentine’s Day from your grade school days? The teacher would bring out the construction paper, red, green, blue, yellow, scissors, the ones with the rounded ends but you still were warned not to run with them, school paste, and pencils, color pencils. Did…
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Dear Friends, It is hard to believe that this week marks one hundred columns how time does go by. When I started writing this weekly message I felt I had something worth saying and I needed something to occupy my time during what I thought would be a few months of shut down due…
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