K-State is holding a ''beef cattle reproductive strategies'' workshop in January. I suppose it's intended for breeders and it probably has a lot of stuff related to AI — that's a scientific term for what animals don't need science to do. Well and good. But if you ask me, somebody ought to consider the strategies question from the perspective of somebody other than the breeder.

My wife Joyce and I recently returned from our annual trip to Nashville to help the Grand Ole Opry celebrate its birthday.

I was struck by ESPN's suspension of Bob Griese for his on-air remark regarding race car driver Juan Pablo Montoya during a college football game last week.

I was busy looking over my fantasy football lineup the other day, when a lady bug landed on my laptop.

Pretend for just one second that you're in advertising, and you've got one, maybe two shots to present an image of Kansas that gets the curiosity flowing, shows the state in a different light and avoids bacon-brained cliches.

A friend of mine died a week ago, and I never got a chance to thank her for a profound gift of kindness.

I was cruising my kid's school work online the other day. There was a C-plus in science, largely because he had followed up some A homework assignments and B quizzes with a D-minus on a test. Consistency is not his middle name.

Stay with me on this one: Thousands of people crammed into a tiny town square, filling the streets around an old county courthouse, all looking toward the eastern horizon, where they hear the faint buzz of a single-engine airplane.

Very sunny stuff, indeed: A discussion about solar panels for the Flint Hills Discovery Center led the agenda of Tuesday's city commission meeting.

I believe it was the author and cynic H.L.Mencken who opined, "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to eat people." Or something.