HEART OF A TIGER: Meet Honesty Beaton – innovator, leader, change-maker
HAYS - Few embody the spirit of resilience and innovation like Honesty Beaton, a senior Computer Science major at Fort Hays State University (FHSU).
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Read MoreHEART OF A TIGER: Meet Honesty Beaton – innovator, leader, change-maker
ASKING ERIC: After job loss comes shame and meddlesome advice
Dear Eric: I had a bad falling out from a very toxic job a few months ago. Since it ended, I’ve been dealing with feelings of shame and betrayal, but I’m doing what I can to clean the fallout from my brain. I’m in therapy, I’ve taken up some new hobbies, and I’m reconnecting with old friends. I’m taking some time off from full-time employment (I still have a small side hustle), but I have some savings and I’m taking care to protect my “on ramp” for a future job search.
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ASKING ERIC: Husband has extreme reaction to wife’s affection
Dear Eric: My husband and I have worked hard to create consistent communication in our relationship that has lasted 10 years. We have both struggled to get to a good place, which we thought we had achieved.
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When my wife called to tell me the doctor had called her I was waiting for the word benign.
ASKING ERIC: Mother still paying rent for child’s ex
Dear Eric: I had a relationship with a man for eight years, during a turbulent time in my life. We broke up five years ago. He has cut all contact with me. However, he still talks to my mother. She pays his rent, bought him a new car that was the same make and model as the one she helped me buy, but one year newer.
FROM ZOO TO YOU: May is packed full of fun opportunities at the zoo
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HOLY COW! HISTORY: A tale of two trains; when friendship rode the rails
Eighty years ago, Europe was finally quiet. Planes no longer dropped bombs, tanks sat stationary, rattling machine guns fell silent. After six bloody years, World War II was at last over on the continent.
ASKING ERIC: Parents refuse to return from vacation for hospitalized son
Dear Eric: My wife’s brother and his wife recently left on a six-week overseas trip, leaving their 14-year-old son at home with his grandfather, who speaks very little English. They didn’t leave any instructions with anyone in case of an emergency.
HOLY COW! HISTORY: The (celebrity!) centenarian White House correspondent
Springtime in Washington is famous for two things: the Japanese cherry blossoms and the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. It’s one of D.C.’s biggest bashes of the year when the paparazzi and the glitterati come together for an evening of laughter.