by Faith Karini, Andi Babineau and Sara Finch, CNN Kouri Richins’ husband was found dead at the foot of their bed last March. She’d just closed on a house for her business, she told investigators at the time. Around 9 p.m., she brought her husband, Eric Richins, a celebratory Moscow Mule cocktail in …
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Take Care Of Mom As She Took Care of You
by Kevin Burton From the cross, the most difficult circumstance imaginable, Jesus took care of His earthly mother. He knew He was ending his earthly walk and He was telling the disciple John to meet her needs. “So when Jesus saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said …
Home Decluttering Means No To Garage Sales
by Kevin Burton Just two hours on a recent Tuesday greatly enhanced how we feel about our house, and all we did was open the front door. Electricians came and executed six of the seven small projects we had scheduled. The seventh is much more involved than we thought because of the way …
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Will Bengals Say Goodbye To Eli Apple?
by Kevin Burton There were storms in the KAKE-land viewing area Thursday night, so I made a choice right away. I said and I meant it, that the very FIRST time our local ABC affiliate broke away from the NFL draft for something as frivolous as a storm warning, I was out. I …
Cleaning Tips From Experts Better Than I
by Kevin Burton Those of you who have turned to Page 7 for cleaning tips have been disappointed for the first (almost) three years. Sorry. It’s not that I lack expertise in this area. I know cleaning. Just ask my wife. It’s safe to say she is amazed at my eagerness to clean, …
We Watched Our Culture On Our Radios
by Kevin Burton The love we all had for radio and the vibrant world it brought to us, made it well worth risking the wrath of parents. All of us have stories of hiding that transistor radio under our pillows, trying to be quiet so our parents wouldn’t know we were still awake. …
Oh Baby! Life Begins At Costco
by Kevin Burton Is there more to Costco than meets the eye? From UPI March 30, came a story about a Michigan couple who didn’t quite make it to the hospital when their baby was due. “Emergency responders in Michigan said an impatient baby refused to wait for the hospital and ended …
Giving The Gifts Of Love And Devotion
by Kevin Burton The best jokes around our house don’t start with “knock knock” or “a guy walks into a bar.” They start with “what do you want for..” On our calendar we have spaced birthdays, Christmas, and our anniversary so that at all times there is some kind of gifting occasion on …
Wife To The Rescue of Alexa And Me
by Kevin Burton My songwriting is punctuated by bursts of creativity, drive and joy but it swims in a vast ocean of self-doubt. If confidence were gun powder, I couldn’t blow up an apple. My confidence is like that sorry little piece of fat they call pork, in a huge can of beans, …
Board Game Beatdown South Dakota Style
by Kevin Burton My wife and I loved our South Dakota-Nebraska vacation last fall. We really didn’t want to come home. On the way home I kept a Nebraska station on the car radio well past the point where we could actually hear it well enough to recognize a song. “Hey, if …
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