Opinion

by Pam Lowe, Editor, Clay County Courier, Cherryroad columnist There’s an underestimated life skill that either makes or breaks a person’s trajectory in life. It can actually advance or end careers.

October was a lot of skeletons and zombies and ghosts, and it made me realize that Halloween omits an important step before the afterlife. The transition. All of these spirits were once living but now they’re dead. Fine, technically a zombie is undead. Which is a confusing. The prefix “un” means the absence of something.

When you can provide someone with a good laugh and it lasts all day, you have really accomplished something. And here is how I did it.

Last weekend I enjoyed breakfast at one of the long-time restaurants in Bull Shoals. It was a beautiful autumn day so, before going home, I drove around the town a bit and thought about visits there when I was a kid.

We cannot save them all. We can only save those we can.

Twin Lakes Playhouse presents its final production of the 2022 season, Deliver Us From Mama, Friday, October 21 through Sunday, October 30. Presented in special arrangement with Dramatists Play Services, Inc.

Ain’t October wonderful! It’s the best month of the year for fishing and hunting, except maybe for November and April, and possibly May and December. I once spent most of October in Canada, fishing for walleye, crappie and smallmouth, and hunting ruffed grouse and ducks and geese. We would start on the Lake of the Woods in northwest Ontario and then move over into Manitoba’s prairie pothole country where ducks and geese numbered in the millions. One October evening I caught a ten-pound walleye in Manitoba’s Red River after hunting geese all morning.

As I began thinking about this topic, I remembered the trees of my childhood backyard on Alford Street. Fortunately, the folks who own the home now are friends of mine so when I asked if I could come take a look at “their” backyard, they were more than willing, so off I went.