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Butch’s List of Unhealthy Foods

Many people my age now try to watch what they eat and try to find...

Butch Asks, ‘A Butterfinger Costs How Much?’

  I was heading home from a ballgame recently and stopped at a gas station...

Butch Lists Guidelines for Women Over 70

In my last column I listed a few guidelines for men who have reached the...

Butch Lists Guidelines for Men Over 70

   Several of my friends and a few former classmates now head to Florida during...

Butch Remembers Fun at the Gravel Pits

There were no large creeks near our farm when I was growing up in the...

Butch Recalls ‘Unsafe at Any Speed!’

   My youngest son, who is a police officer in Frankfort, Ind., brought his three...

Butch Says Grandmas Are Grand!

   "I know what makes a Grandma grand--she always has a treat, A cookie or...

Butch Says, Go ahead . . . Spoil Those Grandkids!

   Some things never change. The following poem was written by Edgar Guest in 1924...

Butch Was a ‘Tag-along’ Farm Kid

   When I was a youngster, I didn't realize how fortunate I was that my...

Butch Loves His Keurig . . . But Wait a Second!

   The first thing I do each morning is turn on the Keurig coffee maker...