Good News with Larry Powell

9-14 Back To School

9-13 Reminder That Evil Does Exist

9-12 The Day Before The World Changed

9-9 The Now Infamous Pop Up

9-8 Mr. Mumma

9-7 Older and Wiser

9-6 The Del Satins...an "Older Group But They Still Got It"

9-5 Glow In The Dark Trees

9-2 The Welcome Wagon

9-1 The Digital Tether

8-31 Heroes Still

8-30 DNA Testing for Family History

8-29 Driving Your First Car

My wife’s brother, Steve, is a truck driver, a long haul truck driver. He drives around 5,000 miles per week. My wife will get a call from him one day and he’s in Chicago and then a few days later he’s in some town in Florida or Texas or Colorado. He crosses from one part of the country to the other on a regular basis. We get to spend some time with him once about every six weeks. During one conve...

My mom’s one of the smartest people I know. She’s well-read, witty, and stays up with what’s happening in the world. She has knowledge, insight, and interest in a variety of subjects and topics. She was born in the roaring twenties, lived through the Great Depression of the 30’s, World War II, the Happy Days of the 50’s, the Hippies of the 60’s, the bad fashions of the 70’s, the rockers in spandex...

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is one of the most interesting places each year to physically see the next generation of digital health devices. We’ve all seen or even used pedometers to measure how many steps we take or apps that track our calorie consumption. The next generation of wearable health technology has concentrated on gathering individual data that is automatically be transm...

I have a friend, Bob Greco, who is an Orthotist. You must be thinking: What is an Orthotist? For anyone who has ever suffered from Polio, you know! He is the guy who builds and repairs your brace, that unique device that gives you the ability to walk and move around without crutches or a wheelchair. He is your mobility man and very essential to your sense of freedom. Back in the 70’s I had only on...

As an educator and involved in education for over 50 years, I have poured my heart, soul, and energy into the education and care of thousands of students and their families. I have been invited into their lives and for all intents and purposes became a part of their families. I celebrated when they succeeded and achieved and I hurt when students suffered failures and didn’t reach their full potent...

If I were to poll 100 of my friends, I would be hard-pressed to find one that said that they liked going to the dentist. In fact, I would be hard-pressed to find any of my enemies that would express pleasure at being in the dentist’s chair. I get it. That needle looks like it is 6 inches long and I know it is supposed to take the pain away. But that is assuming that you don’t faint or scream or ha...

I’m a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I sometimes eat salad and a little bit of fruit. I have been blessed with a very high metabolism and I can eat just about anything I want. I love candy, ice cream, apple pie, and cake. I am hooked on fried chicken and chili beans. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. Throw in chips and salsa or cheese dip and I am in heaven. I love cashews and almonds e...

It was the summer of 1970. I was heading to Sanger, California, my birthplace and the birthplace of my father, to interview for a teaching position at the high school, dad’s high school. I was driving a lowered, white 1964 Chevy. It had a tiny half-size metal steering wheel and chrome reverse rims. I had spent hours cleaning it up and waxing it for this very day. I arrived about an hour early, a h...

I can taste them now even though my mother-in-law has been gone for many years. Hot beef sandwiches. It was November of 1969 and Thanksgiving. I had taken a flight from Fresno to Baltimore, Maryland with a destination of York, Pennsylvania where I was to join Dot. I was planning to ask her to be my wife and to ask her father for her hand in marriage. My flight schedule got me into Baltimore about...

Back in the early 1970s, my wife and I didn’t have much money but because we were teachers, we had the whole summer. And, we had a 1969 VW Bug that got great mileage and gas was cheap so we thought we’d go to Kansas City to visit my wife’s parents who were attending a church convention. You can imagine two people and their luggage crammed into a VW Bug. Just as we were about to leave, my wife’s br...

It may not seem like much, but for most of my first thirty years of life with polio, I only had one pair of shoes to wear at a time. That’s right. One pair. That one pair of shoes, always black, was worn for every occasion…work, play, or fancy dress. I learned to take pretty good care of that one pair of shoes. Back in the fifties, sixties, and much of the seventies, the way that a brace was manuf...

52. 52 and counting years! Wow! That’s a big number. That’s a lot of years. That’s how many years my wife, Dot, and I have been married. June 13, 1970. We were just kids with hopes and dreams and likes and dislikes and we were just beginning to have thoughts about each other. How could we ever image what it would be like 52 years later? We are still thrilled with each other, and she still laughs a...