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A lake with trees, snow, and ice in winter.

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The Regular Joe

Letter from the Editor

by Shannon Bond Winter is many things. It can be a busy time with school and activities, holidays, and family

Ukrainian children in an underground bunker in Ukraine.

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Sleep Well, Ukraine…Q&A with Anthony Glise

St. Joseph, Mo. native Anthony Glise is a world-renowned classical guitarist, composer, and author. He has won many awards and

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The perfect brew is waiting for you at Mojo’s in Kearney

Mojo’s is a coffeeshop in Kearney, Missouri, located in Northwest, Missouri.

Features Shawn Murphy

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After 50, the ‘C’ word means Colonoscopy

Earlier this month I went in for an endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Or, as was listed next to my name on the whiteboard, I had a ↑↓. Most people were just having a ↓, so I will admit that I felt a little special to have been chosen for a bi-directional procedure. Because when they take you back to the…

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Letter from the Editor

Welcome to the new Regular Joe. We’re so glad you’re here. The pandemic did a number on many small publications,

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Good Bait from the Coltrane Station

I recently acquired a lot of new music, on vinyl and CD. My mother moved out of the house we’d lived
in since 1958, and gave me a lifetime’s collection. The vinyl included some iconic recordings from my
childhood. There are albums from Jonathan Winters, Frank Sinatra, and the Baja Marimba Band, not to
mention Beethoven and Bach.

Legs in black leggings and boots on escalator

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Are Leggings Pants or just underwear with legs?

I myself have a tendency to think that if leggings were really pants they would call them pants, but there are so many people that wear them now, as pants, I have become confused (more so than usual). Has it become socially acceptable to wear, out in public, leg coverings that are really a just thick cousin of panty hose and call them pants? Perhaps…

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The Chiropractors of Ancient Greece

For years, I’ve asserted that a poem is not complete until it’s read aloud. I blame it on Aristotle. A poem can sit, in a book, on the shelf, unopened, gathering dust, and eventually die in the used-book bin. Or, it can leap boldly into action, sing and dance, and live forever. ..