Rhonda’s Blog

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Mar 09, 2009

Writer offers potential career paths for young adults

The word of the day, boys and girls, is careers. You know, jobs. We all have to get one sooner or later. Without it, you will never be able to

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Feb 24, 2009

The (Love) Doctor is in

When you’re a parent, you find that life is divided into two eras – Before Kids (BK) and After Kids (AK). In our case, it’s Before Boys and After Boys.

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Feb 16, 2009

Be thankful – you could be a doctor

It’s everywhere. It doesn’t matter where you go or who you talk to, everyone’s thinking the same four-letter word. This little word won’t get your mouth washed out with soap.

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Feb 10, 2009

‘Simple American mom’ offers economic stimulus ideas

All those zeroes. It’s more than the finite mind can comprehend. Yes, I’m talking about the stimulus package that is being debated right now on the Hill. In an effort

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Feb 02, 2009

Super Bowl should end with x’s, o’s, and apologies

By the time this column goes to print, that annual festival of the pigskin known as the Super Bowl will have concluded. Every year, millions of us gather in living

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Jan 26, 2009

Mother updates resume, cites zookeeping experience

Big Z, little z, what begins with z? Zookeeper does, that’s what. Whether it was boredom with daily life or a simple case of the midwinter jickers, to quote Dr.

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Jan 19, 2009

You know you should, but it’s just no fun

Ever notice that many of the things we know we should do just aren’t much fun? Or that the things we know we shouldn’t do are lots of fun? And

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Jan 12, 2009

Local Procrastinators Anonymous leader makes resolutions…for others

A new year has begun. A fresh chapter waits to be written. And this column should have been penned a couple of weeks ago. I like goals, but I’ve never

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Jan 05, 2009

It really is all fun and games

Isn’t family wonderful? Spending time over the holidays with your relatives can remind you of just how normal you really are. It’s quite reassuring in a dysfunctional way. The Yoders,

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Dec 29, 2008

Fourteen hours with Dale, Jr. and the pit crew

I have the privilege this week of writing the column from the little house on the prairie. Well, it’s actually my parents’ log home on the Kansas plains, but this

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