Sam Blackwell
FeaturesJuly 28, 2011
The last wordJuly 28, 2011 Dear readers, This is my final column for the Southeast Missourian. No mourning is called for. I'm just moving on to other interests. You will too. This column began about 20 years ago, so more than 1,000 Letters from Home have appeared. My mother has...FeaturesJuly 14, 2011
An art called golfJuly 14, 2011 Dear Pat, Back when I started taking golf seriously in my 40s I naively thought me playing on the tour for players over 50 was possible. The fact that everyone on that tour began taking golf seriously in their teens or even earlier did not dissuade me...FeaturesJuly 7, 2011
Wondering whatJuly 7, 2011 Dear Julie, While transferring her old reel-to-reel tapes onto CDs, my mother found a tape of my old friend David playing and singing three songs he'd written, including one we co-wrote for a creative writing class. It was about horses and Georgia, sub...FeaturesJune 30, 2011
Sitting with dadJune 30, 2011 Dear Leslie At 10:17 p.m. I am sitting in a chair in an assisted living facility. My father is asleep in the bed in front of me. A man neither of us knows sleeps in the bed beside my father's. A curtain separates strangers. Wheelchairs parked next to ...FeaturesJune 23, 2011
Inside DC's brainJune 23, 2011 Dear Leslie, Our niece Casey graduated from the local university last month with a degree in fashion merchandising. That's after starting college intent on becoming a pharmacist. Our niece Carly graduated from the University of Cincinnati a few weeks ...FeaturesJune 16, 2011
Welcoming Baby GillJune 16, 2011 Dear Patty, After Kristin Gill found out she was pregnant, the second-graders in her class at Blanchard School began work on a book about the baby. The class had a "baby talk" session every Monday, discussing their ideas about pregnancy, writing them ...FeaturesJune 9, 2011
Don't know much about historyJune 9, 2011 Dear Leslie, I didn't pay much attention in American history class either. The going could be dry, especially in the days before PowerPoint presentations. Lots of dates to memorize, less context to make the dates meaningful. In one history class I pain...FeaturesJune 2, 2011
Taking the watersJune 2, 2011 Dear Pat, During much of the last half of the 20th century, the Capaha Park Pool was the epicenter of summer fun for much of Cape Girardeau's youth. Now the deteriorated pool is being torn down. The bulldozer is leaving a hole in the middle of the park...Advertisement
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