-Isms: Views on life in rural America

Film producer Rick McCallum said, “It’s easy to be a backseat driver. It’s even easier to be a backseat driver when you’re not even in the same car.”

Spoken like a true backseat driver.

I never realized how often I make driving suggestions to Scott until Sunday, when he drove to Verdigre.

As we near Royal, I politely suggest we should take the road past Grove Lake to avoid road construction on Highway 14.

There was construction earlier in the week when the grandkids played baseball in the Kolach Capital of the World, so we opt for the scenic route, past Mars, mirroring the meandering Verdigris...