Opinion

It’s not something that I spend a lot of time thinking about, but when I ran across this list of “Words that don’t mean what they used to,” I thought my readers might find this interesting, too.

Hey, my pretty girl, I can’t believe you are eight! Time sure does fly by When your life is so great! You are the coolest girl around! And it’s great style you got, You are my lovely and sassy rose. Plus the way you care about things means a lot.

Moving to Kansas after spending most of my career in North Dakota was a shock. Not because of the ruralness of the state.

I rescued this one out of the round file. Sadly, it is probably truer than we would like to think.

Dear Editor: Thistle be a “two-part” letter this time as there are two different subjects I need to cover. Since the new administration has changed the way we are to speak, I’ll do my best not to get myself or the Sentinel into trouble.

THIS AND THAT * The Monkees were and will always be one of my favorite music groups since I watched their TV show when I was growing up and still watch the reruns today. I also have several of their albums because they had some great songs and Davy sure could play that tambourine!

Dear Editor: Congratulations to the 7 girls on the Lady Tiger Basketball Team on their big win at Mankato. Trailing most of the time and 7 points behind with less than a minute to play, the Lady Tigers tied the game for overtime and managed a terrific win over the Rock Hills Grizzly girls.

What have you learned about yourself during the pandemic? Several times in my life I have kept a diary; but I could never keep it up and rarely made it through a month or two, let alone a year.

THIS AND THAT * Hey, who remembers Mr. Shier’s junior high English class? Do you all remember when we had to memorize the poem “Daffodils” by William Woodsworth?

It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last, as tensions have occasionally run high between the state education board and the Legislature.