Opinion

You are 1.3 decades, 13 years, 156 months, 677 weeks, 4,745 days, 113,880 hours, 6,837,339 minutes, and 410,240,376 seconds old! Welcome to the first of your seven teenage years! Enjoy each and every minute of your lucky 13 year! Love you more, Grams.

St. Patrick’s Day is just over the horizon, so let’s have a little fun with my people, the Irish.

This And That * We all know that song, “Do You Want To Build A Snowman?” Well, I have thought about, and I say no, I don’t want to. I want to build a sandcastle on a beach in the Caribbean.

This And That * Don’t ask permission to fly. The wings are yours and the sky belongs to no one.

WHEN KANSAS WAS PART OF FRANCE The place we call Kansas was claimed by several nations before it became part of the United States. About 12,000 to14,000 years ago, indigenous peoples (later called Indians) began moving into present- day Kansas.

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• A lot of psychology goes into knowing how to merchandise. Consider: A grocer put up a sign that read, “Eggplants, 25 cents each – three for a dollar.” All day long, customers exclaimed: “Don’t be ridiculous! I should get four for a dollar.

• This is a true story. Many people know about the small bison herd in Hays, south of the FHSU campus and across the road north of the Fort Hays Historic Site.

This And That * They say to listen to your inner voice… well, mine wants me to quit my job and move to the beach. * On Tuesday, March 3rd, skywatchers will get a front row seat to witness a total lunar eclipse where the full moon shifts into a rich copper red gold.

Black History Month February is Black History Month, and Kansas has much Black History to celebrate and much racism to dislike. Kansas Territory, created in 1854, became a contest for control between free-state and slave-state interests.