My boy at 21
September 27, 2022. Roughly 4:45 p.m. Derby, Kan. (pop. 24,000). I’d just left work to meet my son, Sam, at Blue Sky Storage. We were...
Easter 2022
By Jeff Guy I went into Easter this year feeling a little sad. It was similar to how I felt last Christmas. My grandparents are gone, Mom...
Marcia
Editor's Note: I meant to publish this piece on Feb. 14, 2022. Due to a combination of work, extracurricular activities and, yes,...
A Crusader through and through
I live in a town called Wellington, Kan. (pop. around 8,000). There’s a golf course, park, swimming pool and walking trail near my...
Dishonoring the King legacy
By Jeff Guy What a way to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s the King holiday and parents are harassing school boards because they don’t...
Christmas 2021
The picture above is of what I wrote in the Christmas card I sent to my dad, Gerald, and step-mom, Marcia, last year. I think it was the...
Christmas parody letter 2021
(singing) I’m a creep I’m a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? It’s another Christmas year Dear _______, Ho! Ho! And I mean HO! Have a...
My friend Al
By Jeff Guy It was the 11 o’clock hour on a Saturday morning, June 12. I was with my daughter, Makenzie, in my hometown of Jett, Kan....
Uncle Don
By Jeff Guy I know the two old guys in the photo pictured above look like the two judges from The Muppet Show, but actually, it's my...
Twenty years later
It was the 8 o’clock hour, September 11, 2001, a Tuesday. I had just turned from U.S. 254 to 37th and Hillside streets on my way to work...
