Opinion

@ Your Library: Diane ADAMS

It is only the last Friday of January and I already feel behind in 2023. I have been working on a jigsaw puzzle and playing some solo board games in the evenings and not doing as much reading as I’d like. I need to figure out how to read and play games each evening and still get to bed at a decent time. I also have several knitting projects I am tackling and of course have to do something with sourdough each week. So I stay busy and am beginning to daydream, plot and plan for summer vacations. “Best Road trips: Midwest and the Great Lakes: escapes on the Open road a Lonely Planet guide” has some wonderful ideas. And I love looking at maps and “Wild Maps for Curious Minds” by Mike Higgins provides ‘100 new ways to see the natural world.’ There are maps showing where the tiniest animals of a variety of species live, where earthquake zones are, where oceans get their water and where people are most at risk from natural disasters, to name just a few.

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HISTORY WITH Mike Hanson

Mister Joe Mannausau II Mister Joe was appreciative when real horsepower was replaced by tractors, cars, trucks, boat motors and other gasoline contrivances, but in his later years he wondered aloud if all the new mechanical things were taking the place of real manpower, leaving no work for a man to make a living. Joe philosophized that we are enjoying paradise now and not thinking of what it is going to be for the young folks that will be taking our place after we are gone.

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Aging Adventure

Dick Approaching fourscore rides on Planet Earth in its dance around Boss Star, old adventurer with longterm bride, sweetheart and best friend here try to understand old-age management questions concerning long-term care insurance. An early such insurance product was available for this employee and spouse some 25 years ago when retirement arrived; it was portable, taken into future old age years.

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@ YOUR LIBRARY: Diane ADAMS

READ! I know I probably sound like a broken record player (how many get that dated reference) but reading is an important part of our humanity. Reading allows us to learn, increases our empathy, can decrease our stress and anxiety levels and help us sleep better.

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Ask A Trooper: Emergency lights

ASK A TROOPER Question: I was driving on the freeway during the worst part of a recent storm. Just had a question—are people supposed to use their emergency flashers when they are driving? So many cars on the freeway were, and it made it impossible to tell if someone was actually stopped or moving slowly (also, if they changed lanes, there was no way to tell).

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Beyond Reason: Ode to an Ode

BEYOND REASON To write about a thing, like, say, I don’t know, hypothetically, an ode, you might really want to have an intimate knowledge of the thing. Or perhaps you might want to really get to know the thing, so you spend hours and days and weeks researching the thing.

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