Larry N. Campbell

A New Year’s Resolution It was the best New Year’s resolution I ever made. In 2012, I made a New Year’s resolution to visit a branch of my family tree that had long been missed. At the time I had not seen my uncle Don and aunt Jean since my wedding nearly twenty years before, and the […]

On Returning To Liberty for a 45th Reunion  How wonderful it was to return to a prosperous and vibrant Liberty for my high school class’ 45th Reunion.  I never recall Liberty being so green and lush or an August in Liberty being so mild.  Old landmarks still survive – the Square with Whiteside Jewelers, D’Agee Florist, […]

Following Your Passion We all have a passion, some of us more than one. If we’re lucky we find it when we’re young. My passion is horses, and it was alive and burning in me at a young age. Growing up in the suburbs of San Bruno, just south of San Francisco, there were no […]

 A Little Bird Misses the Forest for the Trees As the second of five children, one of the great treats of my childhood summers was to occasionally get to spend a few days by myself with my grandmother.  I called her Grammy.  She didn’t live far from us, maybe 30 miles, in the same town […]

The last two columns in the Springfield News-Leader by Larry Campbell have hit a bull’s eye on my educational pet peeve target.  When I first began teaching at Branson High School in 1972, I spoke with a friend of mine who was on the Branson School Board at the time.  I asked him if it wouldn’t […]

A Few Minutes Short of a Lot:   What if I had given it a few minutes more? When I saw the cascade of water over the rocks in the creek to my right, I stopped the car. This must be it — the much praised Falling Water Falls, Arkansas, I had heard about from […]

CAMINO MEMORIES Coming out of Zubiri was a long morning. By 11 AM with no cafes in sight, it was clear that the snacks we had purchased in a local tienda the evening before were going to be much needed. And, between us, we had almonds, oranges, crackers, apples , a banana, dark chocolate ( […]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Terry Goodman spent his entire teaching career working with future math teachers at University of Central Missouri (previously Central Missouri State), and officially retired in 2011, after which he returned to his home state of Texas.  (His comment was that the move raised the average IQ of both states!)  Terry and I […]

First Day of Spring It’s spring time! The melodious sounds of singing birds and the enchanting, sweet scent of spring freshness wrapped around the hilltop where an old man and old woman lived in a little red-brick house for almost fifty years. Tiny, purple, cup-shaped crocuses popped their heads out of the plush wonderland of […]