Opinion

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I so rarely get sick that, when I do, I look at my body like it’s some kind of trickster.

“Is this your idea of a joke?” I asked my body in the middle of the night.

I occasionally get carsick and even get air motion sickness on planes, but my nausea never (if you will pardon the expression) rises to the level of actual vomiting. So my reaction at 2:30 in the morning was to assume this was a practical joke.

GUEST COLUMN, Leslie Weirich, leslieshope.com

A suicide devastates more than one life.

I learned that lesson shortly after my doorbell rang at 2:30 a.m. on September 10, 2016. My 20-year-old son, Austin, had died by suicide. After decades reciprocating his infectious smile and admiring his achievements on the football field and in the classroom, I had to digest in an instant that I would never see him again.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Reita Isaacs, Liberal

What subject/subjects should I focus on this evening: trains, planes, drones, government, conspiracy theories? My little scraps of information come from scribbles on everything from a church bulletin, bank envelope, college request for money, regular paper, and last but not least, nestled in the recipe for a chicken casserole.

Shortly before the Blackhawk helicopter/airplane collision, I watched a video (the date for replay shown on the page was March 24, 2024) with a female  representative from Lockheed Martin bragging how they had gotten together with our government and developed a way to control the Blackhawk helicopter by computer or radio transmission; and she was on her way to Washington, D.C. to present it to them.

GUEST COLUMN, Dr. Heidi Prather, Hospital for Special Surgery

Imagine being one of the millions of Americans in need of a hip or knee replacement due to osteoarthritis. Severe pain, reduced physical activity, an inability to perform many routine tasks -- the symptoms can be truly debilitating.

But if you're obese or overweight, there's a good chance that your orthopedic surgeon will refuse to provide care. As one patient told the New York Times of her doctor, "He told me to come back when I had lost 30 pounds."