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Stop to appreciate that article of clothing protecting you on the rocky roads of life
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Stop to appreciate that article of clothing protecting you on the rocky roads of life

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Aug 28, 2025
  • 3 min to read

I have this thing about shoes.

Where is our 38th president when we really need him?
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Where is our 38th president when we really need him?

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Aug 8, 2024
  • 3 min to read

Jerry, we hardly knew ye.

What in the world? If you want a print encyclopedia, you can still buy one
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What in the world? If you want a print encyclopedia, you can still buy one

  • By Gordon Bess
  • May 23, 2024
  • 3 min to read

It all started with near-roadkill. My wife and I recently were tooling up a street in downtown Festus in our Ford Escape, me behind the wheel,…

Now hear this: One of these days you might not be able to
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Now hear this: One of these days you might not be able to

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Apr 25, 2024
  • 3 min to read

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

Ouster of St. Pius discounts decades of positive competition
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Ouster of St. Pius discounts decades of positive competition

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Mar 21, 2024

Failure comes in many forms.

As chaos reigns in college football, solutions aren’t that hard to figure out
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As chaos reigns in college football, solutions aren’t that hard to figure out

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Jan 25, 2024

College football is, if I may discreetly say, “a mell of a hess.”

Killing of JFK set in motion erosion of trust in federal government
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Killing of JFK set in motion erosion of trust in federal government

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Nov 16, 2023

Sixty years ago next week, America suffered a terrible wound that remains unhealed to this day.

So you’re the president. Now what do you do?
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So you’re the president. Now what do you do?

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Sep 28, 2023

Who among us has not entertained at least a fleeting personal fantasy of power, wealth or fame?

Take it from an old runner: walking is the better way to go
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Take it from an old runner: walking is the better way to go

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Jul 20, 2023

“Moving in silent desperation

Fear or control: What will it be as AI advances?
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Fear or control: What will it be as AI advances?

  • By Gordon Bess
  • Jun 8, 2023

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

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