Opinion

There are certain truths that are universal, but unspoken. They are numerous - all around us.

Dear Amy: A real estate agent helped us through numerous deals within a short 18 months — expertly, deftly and patiently. In the end she closed a total of five local sales, all through us.

Dear Rusty: I was born in late 1951. When I retired five years ago, I was made aware that my own Social Security benefit was less than half of my husband’s Social Security benefit.

Dear Rusty: I just started receiving my Social Security in February of 2023. I am also working part-time at a company 24 hours a week.

Spring sports season at School in a Soybean Field switches the focus from random play and basketball to track and field. The seventh-grade and social studies teacher, Jack, is the all-sports coach for the seventh and eighth-grade boys.

Over the course of my two years in junior high school, specifically to the times, grades seven and eight, we studied a good bit about our country, its history and its government. This was clearly long before the days in which children who know virtually nothing about our nation were granted the “right” to vote in our local, state and national elections. But I digress.

Dear Rusty: I was widowed years ago and, when I approached age 60, I looked into Social Security survivor benefits based on my late husband’s record. He started receiving Social Security shortly before he died at $1,200 per month.

As a 5-year-old boy, Jacques Grelley fell headfirst off of a 12-foot wall. At 7 years old he was thrown 30 feet by an aggressive cow.