Hill City Prevailer

Keystone is the bestest!

Published by admin on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 4:58pm

Gray must have something delicious cooking for you next week, because he’s asked me to write back-to-back columns. And I knew exactly what I wanted to write about...I figured I’d fill you in on how cool Keystone is year-round.

Now I know you all know Keystone is the best place to hang out in the summer...we have the best museum in the Hills (and it’s free!). We have like a gazillion ice cream stores. And of course the largest mirror maze north of the Texas border.

Let’s not fall backwards anymore

Published by admin on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 11:38am

So I have a brilliant idea on how to unite the country. Well, two really.

This column will focus on the most important...the dreaded fall back!

I don’t know if it means I’m for daylight saving or against daylight saving (that’s more confusing than background checks for gun owners).

Combating the ‘holiday creep’

Published by admin on Thu, 11/07/2019 - 12:20pm

I think either Carol or Bev wrote about this very phenomenon a couple of years ago, but I think it’s worth revisiting.

As you very well know, last Thursday was Halloween. You know Halloween—the holiday where kids get dressed up and walk door-to-door asking for candy. The holiday where horror movies are as common as flies on a buffalo. The very holiday that caps the time of the year that is now know by today’s youth as #SpookySzn.

Tick, tock, tick, tock

Published by admin on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 12:03pm

The saying goes “time flies when you’re having fun,” so does that mean as I’m getting older I’m having more fun? Because time is flying.

My snow tires are back on my car...I swear they just same off. Granted they didn’t come off until June this year, but still! 

'We are all Americans'

Published by admin on Thu, 10/24/2019 - 10:57am

There has been, uh, a lot happening in the national news as of late.

There’s an impeachment inquiry that, whether you believe our president should be impeached or not, will have major political ramifications for years to come. Vaping has lead to more deaths. Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram and posted a picture of a reunion of the “Friends” cast. These are all things that seemed to have received equal coverage in our national media, but that’s a different column for a different day.

My sweet girl, Sadie

Published by admin on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 11:46am

I realize my faithful readers have not yet had a chance to “meet” my beloved Sadiedog. And since she’s doing “rollies” on the carpet right now I think it’s about time I devoted a column to my four-egged bestie!

I have always been a dog person. And Sadie is the first non German Shepherd (GSD) I have ever owned.

When I adopted her she was labeled an Austrailain Shepherd and I figured a shepherd was a shepherd...right?

Music: more than just the songs

Published by admin on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:32pm

Perhaps the biggest advantage in working in an office by yourself is the fact you get to listen to anything you want without headphones. You know, so long as it is appropriate (As much as I might want to, I can’t be listening to rap in the office because that is not work-appropriate in the slightest).

The people in your neighborhood

Published by admin on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 10:58am

I just got the cutest card in the mail from my former neighbors, Peter and Ursala. They are in their 80s, 30 years my senior.

We lived next door to each other for two years. I remember when I first moved in Peter came over to introduce himself and made it clear that the previous neighbor “closed the door wrong.”

Read a book this fall

Published by admin on Thu, 09/26/2019 - 10:25am

Reading is an important part of my life.

The reason why I became an English major in college? So I could read and write papers on what I read.

But too many people — especially in my generation and the generation below me — don’t read.