Opinion

As the weather finally gives us a break, it seems everyone is playing catch-up. Many events are now taking place, many evenings are spent out covering sports events for the schools. It would seem I spend more time in my car than my house.

In the coming weeks, high school seniors across the country will don caps and gowns and proudly walk across a stage to receive a diploma in the culmination of a 13-year goal that has taken the support of many people along the way in order to achieve it. Seniors, your family, in particular, has been with you every step of the way and I hope you thank them.

Think things through. If you quit exercising because you feel good, you’re likely to take a fall and get injured and feel worse.

My house has been a whirlwind of activity the likes of which has not been seen - well, maybe ever. It’s strange when your kids grow up and become adults. I’m at the point in my life where there’s one child left at home, just entering her teenage years, and two are adults out on their own.

Temperatures continue to be below average for this time of the year. Parts of Minnesota once again saw some light rain and some light snow on Sunday as a weak surface low pushed across the region.

Question: My husband always used to say “never use your cruise control during any rain”. Is that still true with advances on tires and technology? Answer: He is correct, cruise control should never be used on wet or icy roadways.

There’s nothing like some good singing to wash away the last of the winter blues. That’s what you’ll get when the Prairie Arts Chorale’s Spring 2023 Concert Series comes to Montevideo on Saturday, April 29. The Journey Home: Blue Skies and Country Roads, is a musical journey of longing to leave home, seeing the wide world, missing home, the road back, and ending with a rousing homecoming!

Here we go again. Where is warm spring sunshine to make flowers bloom? I could even handle the rain if it did anything but make the gravel roads soupy. And here I am again complaining about the weather. It’s difficult to see any bright sides when I look at the long range forecast. Uff da.

For those of you reading this article on Wednesday or Thursday, April 26 or 27th there still is time to attend the MAMLN Spring Educational Event being held on Thursday, April 27 at the United Methodist Church in Montevideo. The event will begin at 9 am and will last until 4:15 p.m.

It was good to see clips of Joe Biden being welcomed by big happy crowds in Ireland, grinning, shaking hands, posing for pictures, kissing babies, quoting Irish poets, busy being beloved by all who waited to see him. Obama knew a degree of belovedness, thanks to his wife and daughters, and Reagan’s sunny disposition was well-received, but the White House hasn’t seen much outright love in my lifetime, which you could argue is proper in a democracy, for people to be wary of great power, but it strikes me as sad, walking around Central Park on a paradise spring day, the cherry trees in full blossom, a jazz trio playing under the trees, Frisbee players playing pickle in the middle, yoga folks striking poses, softball games, a runner pushing his little daughter in a cart, dog walkers, so much public happiness, to think of the cloud of bitterness over this generous country.