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WINSTON WEEKLY©[1] February 2, 2025 Vol. 3, No. 5 THE LOVE OF POETRY Winston Weekly will have monthly themes this year, although that was not my intention when I started the year. Kansas City’s near-record January snowfall inspired the “snow theme,” but it is time to move past the snow! February is sometimes called the…
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WINSTON WEEKLY©[1] January 26, 2025 Vol. 3, No. 4 SENSATIONAL SNOW LEOPARDS[2] As this month’s “snow theme” ends, my thoughts turn to the sensational snow leopard. Only once did I have an opportunity to see one, and that was with my late mother. She and I traveled often from as early as I can recall…
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WINSTON WEEKLY©[1] January 19, 2025 Vol. 3, No. 3 WINTER’S VISION Staying true to January’s winter theme while recognizing that tomorrow is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, it seems appropriate to consider winter’s vision in the context of sociology and “winter soldier” Dr. King.[2] Although Dr. King called himself a “Drum Major for Justice”, Bruce…
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WINSTON WEEKLY©[1] January 12, 2025 Vol. 3, No. 2 BENEATH THE ICE Given the continued cold, I am staying with a “winter theme” this month. This week, the focus is on ice fishing. It is not for the faint of heart, especially when friends past often questioned such endeavors by exclaiming, “Are you nuts!?” Forty-plus…
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WINSTON WEEKLY©[1] January 5, 2025 Vol. 3, No. 1 INUIT LESSONS January begins again with a frigid blast across much of the nation, making it the ideal time to learn a bit about Inuit, often referred to as Eskimos. [2] The first humans believed to have crossed the Bering Strait more than 15,000 years ago…
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WINSTON WEEKLY[1] December 29, 2024 Vol. 2, No. 52 NEW CHAPTERS As 2024 closes with the 52nd edition of Winston Weekly, my focus is on “New Chapters” instead of New Year’s Resolutions. I have often failed miserably at resolutions; many others have too. Dr. Asmin Shah, Executive Vice Chair of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry…
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WINSTON WEEKLY[1] December 22, 2024 Vol. 2, No. 51 HALLS OF HOPE During a recent school visit which came on the heels of a litany of complaints from colleagues about “this generation,” I found hope in the halls. On the walls. At the tables. On the floor. The school’s Coordinator scheduled my time with students…
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WINSTON WEEKLY[1] December 15, 2024 Vol. 2, No. 50 WINTER WONDERS[2] Having grown up in Wisconsin, it is admittedly comical that I have been complaining about this week’s “bitter” weather in KC. The low only reached 29 but seemed bone-chilling. Finding myself in a funk more than a week before winter begins, I shifted my…
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WINSTON WEEKLY[1] December 8, 2024 Vol. 2, No. 49 REINDEER ROUNDUP[2] Although Rudolph was eventually popularized in the 1949 song with the phrase, “the most famous reindeer of all,” the origins of Rudolph and reindeer are often lost in the season’s festivities. The late copywriter Robert L. May developed Rudolph for Montgomery Ward’s annual Christmas…
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WINSTON WEEKLY[1] December 1, 2024 Vol. 2, No. 48 NEW TRADITIONS Taking solace in our two grandcats this Thanksgiving took some adjustment, although there was something magical in watching the two who are as different as our two children. Lux has never liked me which must have something to do with the fact that she…
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