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Cystic fibrosis: Sometimes, life actually can take a turn for the better
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Cystic fibrosis: Sometimes, life actually can take a turn for the better

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Feb 6, 2025
  • 3 min to read

Four-letter words generally get a bad rap, but I have a favorite I bet you’re fond of too: hope.

A new generation discovers the joys of spinning vinyl
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A new generation discovers the joys of spinning vinyl

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Jan 2, 2025
  • 3 min to read

I could go round and round on today’s subject, and you know I’ll do it.

Giving thanks: A bad thing averted, is, in fact, a very good thing
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Giving thanks: A bad thing averted, is, in fact, a very good thing

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Nov 28, 2024
  • 3 min to read

I could swear the beast made eye contact with me, a frozen-in-time moment that went on and on.

If you can’t have a sister, maybe you can create some
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If you can’t have a sister, maybe you can create some

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Nov 21, 2024
  • 3 min to read

Money, or lack thereof, was an issue in my childhood.

Law protects against drug sticker shock, if we can keep it
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Law protects against drug sticker shock, if we can keep it

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Aug 29, 2024
  • 3 min to read

You know how when company’s coming, you rush through your house to pick things up, stack things into piles, push things under other things and…

Good news: I’m not gonna t(rain) on our Amtrak parade
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Good news: I’m not gonna t(rain) on our Amtrak parade

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Aug 1, 2024
  • 3 min to read

As they (sort of) say, a person can get mad and glad in the same pair of blue jeans.

Missouri finally wields the hickory stick on higher starting teacher pay
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Missouri finally wields the hickory stick on higher starting teacher pay

  • By Peggy Bess
  • May 16, 2024
  • 3 min to read

Brand-new schoolteacher Sarah “Mabel” Akins was just past her 19th birthday when she headed home from Prospect Schoolhouse near De Soto on Nov…

America – and some baby chicks – suffered in the days before the measles vaccine
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America – and some baby chicks – suffered in the days before the measles vaccine

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Apr 18, 2024
  • 3 min to read

When measles rampaged through my childhood home in 1960, it turned out to be a fatal event.

Excuse me, but do smart devices bug you, too?
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Excuse me, but do smart devices bug you, too?

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Mar 7, 2024

Suspicious with a smidge of surly.

Taylor Swift conspiracy theories are just plain dumb
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Taylor Swift conspiracy theories are just plain dumb

  • By Peggy Bess
  • Feb 8, 2024

The phenomenon that is Taylor Swift traveled with my daughter and me on our 45-minute drive to a baby shower a few weeks ago.

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