It Starts with One

It Starts with One

  Just one spark starts a fire; one foot forward begins the marathon and one person can feed multitudes. Last week, a campaign called Rotary Feeding Missouri began, and it will continue throughout the month of February. Rotary clubs in Missouri are competing to...
Service above Self

Service above Self

by Monica Palmer   Starting this Sunday, Rotarians across the state will be uniting forces to help our neighbors in need during “Rotary Feeding Missouri.”   In planning for this campaign, I’ve gotten to learn about Rotary and the kind of people who join this...
Dreamers

Dreamers

by Monica Palmer Like many school children, son has spent the last week or so learning about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Last night at dinner, I asked him to tell me what he knew. “Well,” my son began with the expert tone of a worldly scholar, “there was once a time...
Birthday Smile

Birthday Smile

by Monica Palmer I think I have a problem. It all started innocently enough. I bought a few Wizard of Oz plates and napkins from a party store. Then, it snowballed. I made poppy centerpieces, cut out clouds and taped a rainbow of streamers to them, crafted a gym size...
I Didn’t Vote

I Didn’t Vote

by Monica Palmer Like many of my fellow Gen Xers, I got very excited about voting the year I turned eighteen. It was an important rite of passage. I was finally an adult with an opinion that mattered! Election Day came, and I waited in line, stood in a little cubicle...
Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry

by Monica Palmer   I’m making my dirty laundry public today. Last week, our dryer decided it was overworked, so it went on a strike of sorts. As bad luck would have it, the part we needed to fix the dryer wasn’t in stock at the local appliance store. That is how...