by Sara Baker | Jan 25, 2024 | Articles
Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, shuffled down the highway for over five days straight to win a grueling 543-mile ultra marathon in 1983. It was his first race, and he ran it wearing overalls and work boots, beating the next runner by 10 hours. He beat the...
by Sara Baker | Jan 18, 2024 | Articles
As kids, my friends and I rode our bikes from the local store to the pool hall. Usually, I’d go straight from the store to the pool hall unless the crazy guy was in my path. Our town’s crazy guy was mean, foul-mouthed, and really scary to kids. If I saw...
by Sara Baker | Jan 11, 2024 | Articles
The first day back to work in January, I thought my wife had shrunk my dry-clean-only pants in the dryer. She hadn’t; I guess I had too many peanut butter balls between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The headlines say inflation is dropping, but most...
by Sara Baker | Jan 4, 2024 | Articles
Be alert and active. Our daughter drove to Dallas this week along with five other cars for a young adult conference. One of the other girl’s cars was in a minor accident, and another girl got a ticket for speeding in a small town in Oklahoma. She asked our...
by Sara Baker | Dec 28, 2023 | Articles
Don’t get on the unicycle. My friend is a comedic magician in Branson. One of his gigs is to get people to attempt to ride a unicycle while he steals their watch and shows it to the crowd behind their heads. It only works because he gets people distracted by...
