Nancy Malcom

The Third Cup

Columns Archive

• Summer heat, summer fun (7/7/18)
• Plans for July Fourth! (6/30/18)
• Happy Father’s Day (6/16/18)
• Bushwhacker Days! (6/9/18)
• Online or off – June looks to be busy! (6/2/18)
• Memorial Day is here! (5/26/18)
• Happy Mother’s Day! (5/12/18)
• Appreciation (5/5/18)
• May activities (4/28/18)
• Surprises (4/21/18)
• Illusion or hide and seek? (4/14/18)
• Reverie (4/7/18)
• Sweets for Easter (3/31/18)
• March is here! (3/3/18)
• Gun control in the headlines again (2/24/18)
• Happy Valentine’s Day! (2/10/18)
• Forget the government and plant a garden! (2/3/18)
• Icy streets aren’t our only problems (1/20/18)
• Hiding from the flu (1/13/18)
• 2018 is here, what did you expect? (1/6/18)
• Christmas traditions (12/16/17)
• The story of Wilbur (11/4/17)
• The long, cold week (10/21/17)
• Hanging with the old gang (10/7/17)
• Should we bend a knee or stand up? (9/30/17)
• Farmers’ Market in DesMoines (9/22/17)
• Does any one know? (9/16/17)
• Survival on planet Earth (9/9/17)
• To Labor or not to labor? (9/2/17)
• Filling up the family calendar (8/26/17)
• Backyard grocery shopping (8/12/17)
• Hand-clapping and rope-skipping memories (8/5/17)
• Do you have a magic camera? (7/22/17)
• Flossie finds a bottle (7/8/17)
• Happy Fourth of July! (7/1/17)
• Into the Missouri sunshine (6/24/17)
• Bushwhacker Days - history is alive! (6/10/17)
• Happy Memorial Day! (5/26/17)
• May is National Water Safety Month (5/20/17)
• Happy Mother’s Day! (5/13/17)
• Two special May holidays (5/6/17)
• The history of chocolate (4/29/17)
• Never too early to plan ahead (4/22/17)
• April Fool's Day (4/1/17)
• My electronics graveyard (3/25/17)
• Be patient, things happen at their own time (3/18/17)
• Special days in March to commemorate (3/11/17)
• Here and there (3/4/17)
• While searching for one thing (2/25/17)
• President's Day (2/18/17)
• Celebrating Valentine's Day! (2/11/17)
• What will be will be (2/4/17)
• Changes are a coming' (1/21/17)
• An old favorite is back (1/7/17)
• Heads up for Santa! (12/23/16)
• Christmas is coming! (12/17/16)
• Moving on to the holiday season (11/12/16)
• Riding the train (10/8/16)
• Keeping busy at 78 RPMs! (10/1/16)
• The Autumnal Equinox (9/24/16)
• Remembering September 11 (9/10/16)
• Last fling of the summer (9/3/16)
• New shows coming soon (8/27/16)
• Get out and about (8/20/16)
• The good old days at school (8/13/16)
• Back to school? (8/6/16)
• The running of the candidates (7/30/16)
• A loved one passes (7/23/16)
• Support systems we all need (7/16/16)
• Story Telling (7/9/16)
• Happy Independence Day! (7/2/16)
• Keep your cool! (6/25/16)
• Happy Father's Day! (6/18/16)
• Bushwhacker Days are here again! (6/11/16)
• Enjoy the rest of spring (6/4/16)
• Memorial Day memories (5/28/16)
• Back to Iowa to visit family (5/21/16)
• Enjoying the changing weather (5/14/16)
• Flossie's little house in the big back yard (4/30/16)
• Flossie gets a cabin on the lake -- sort of (4/23/16)
• Out to the movies (4/15/16)
• Thoughts on spring (4/2/16)
• Hanging with family (3/26/16)
• Ageless gardening (3/19/16)
• Saint Patty's Day (3/12/16)
• New beginnings (3/5/16)
• Things put off for another day (2/27/16)
• Windstorm Flossie blows her top (2/20/16)
• President's Day history (2/13/16)
• Happy Valentine's Day and relive or make new memories (2/6/16)
• New Year and new budget (1/30/16)
• Waiting out the ice (1/23/16)
• January observances (1/16/16)
• Getting away from winter (1/9/16)
• Merry Christmas! (12/19/15)
• December fun for the family (12/12/15)
• The best Christmas gifts ever! (12/5/15)
• Happy Thanksgiving! (11/21/15)
• Wild Geese and guns (11/14/15)
• Holiday season begins again (11/7/15)
• The Kindness of Strangers (10/17/15)
• Making choices is an autumn tradition (10/10/15)
• Get outside and enjoy the sunshine! (10/3/15)
• Flossie's end of the world, zombie alarm (9/26/15)
• Cleaning a teapot and dreaming of fun (9/19/15)
• Odds and ends and things I'm at odds with (9/12/15)
• Watch out for ticks! (9/5/15)
• Exploring the joy of writing with others (8/29/15)
• Make time to be outdoors -- it's good for you (8/22/15)
• A gift for our grandchildren -- a livable world (8/8/15)
• Keeping cool in the summer heat (8/1/15)
• Odds and ends and things I'm at odds with (7/25/15)
• Quiet time (7/18/15)
• Vacation time in Iowa (7/11/15)
• Independence Day 2015 (7/3/15)
• The season of family reunions! (6/27/15)
• Wedding day for Bill and Amber! (6/20/15)
• Bushwhacker Days plus (6/13/15)
• Planning for June activities (6/6/15)
• Memorial Day ­-- It is a time to remember (5/23/15)
• Armed Forces Day and art (5/16/15)
• Mother's Day and other special days (5/9/15)
• May days to remember (5/2/15)
• Giving a hand up to new artists (4/25/15)
• Giving a hand up to new artists (4/25/15)
• The dead can be very fattening (4/18/15)
• Social events that sound like fun (4/11/15)
• Easter and Passover (4/4/15)
• Flossie's new herb garden (3/28/15)
• Dealing with new television viewing (3/21/15)
• St. Patty's Day brings thoughts of spring (3/14/15)
• Celebrating creativity (2/28/15)
• Want art and entertainment? Plenty available here (2/21/15)
• Happy Valentine's Day! (2/14/15)
• Celebrating the many special days in February (2/7/15)
• Local artists hold informal gathering (1/31/15)
• Old time shopping methods are still fun today (1/24/15)
• The importance of family stories (1/17/15)
• Yes, it is winter -- don't take chances (1/10/15)
• Happy New Year to all of my readers (1/3/15)
• A new Christmas poem from Flossie (12/20/14)
• Santa Claus is watching -- I hope! (12/13/14)
• Thanksgiving leftovers always abound (11/29/14)
• Is this the beginning of the end for Thanksgiving? (11/22/14)
• Early Christmas shopping because of Iowa weather (11/15/14)
• Time change, voting and upcoming holidays (11/8/14)
• Dr. Bill to rescue my Internet connection (11/1/14)
• Attending sports makes lasting family memories (10/25/14)
• New meaning for health care deadlines (10/18/14)
• Zombies and genealogy (10/11/14)
• October TV needs Monitoring by Parents. (10/4/14)
• Read a book -- don't watch TV (9/27/14)
• Almost autumn in Nevada (9/20/14)
• A death in the family, Gentry Malcom (9/12/14)
• A smorgasbord of September celebrations, holidays (with insightful commentary) (9/5/14)
• Wrapping up summer, preparing for fall and winter (8/30/14)
• School, classes starting everywhere (8/22/14)
• Unrest in St. Louis over shooting (8/18/14)
• Stay safe and still do a good deed (8/8/14)
• Back in the race -- walking race (8/1/14)
• Shaking the sieve on genealogy (7/25/14)
• Weird calendar days in July (7/18/14)
• Mid-Continent Library trip (7/11/14)
• Celebrate the Independence holiday with family, friends (7/5/14)
• Flossie tackles construction delays (6/27/14)
• How to spend your summer vacation Missouri style (6/20/14)
• Bushwhacker Days -- Fire, flags and fathers (6/13/14)
• An aged perspective on life through the cycles of time (5/30/14)
• How to enjoy Memorial Day (5/23/14)
• A true survivor's guide on surviving the stomach flu (5/16/14)
• Jessica and Rick -- living the dream of fiction writers (5/9/14)
• A few of the things Flossie does not like (5/2/14)
• Babysitting the grand-dog and becoming well-trained, too (4/25/14)
• Hanging on April's promise (4/11/14)
• The sieve's wish list is a must do before considering a retirement bucket list (4/4/14)
• I Have Found Winter! (3/28/14)
• Spring weather came by, did you see it? (3/21/14)
• Flossie vs St. Patrick's leprechauns 1-0 (3/14/14)
• It's that time change time of year (again) (3/8/14)
• Reading the Daily Mail (3/1/14)
• Work, work, work (2/22/14)
• Flossie and the Beatles (2/15/14)
• Enjoy the indoor weather (2/8/14)
• Throw a ball at the sun! (2/1/14)
• I just sound crazy (1/25/14)
• Cold winter chill (1/18/14)
• A memorial to Leta Bell Dotson Malcom (1/11/14)
• Can you hear me now? (1/4/14)
• Now what's going on (1/3/14)
• Vacuum week (12/28/13)
• He's here! (12/21/13)
• Christmas Past (12/14/13)
• Christmas gifts (11/30/13)
• Let's talk turkey (11/23/13)
• I've been working on the family book all the livelong day! (11/16/13)
• Celebrate November (11/9/13)
• Flossie's scary Halloween trick (11/2/13)
• Happy Halloween (10/26/13)
• Holidays and Alzheimer's (10/19/13)
• Ten signs of Alzheimer's Disease (10/5/13)
• Easy rider on the stationary bike (9/28/13)
• What would Mom say (9/21/13)
• Shaking old branches (9/14/13)
• Flossie talks about unemployment (9/7/13)
• Poor Richard revisited (8/31/13)
• Looking for the missing link (8/24/13)
• What's left to do in August (8/17/13)
• Flossie meets the challenge (8/10/13)
• Staying afloat (7/27/13)
• A challenge to you (7/20/13)
• Beat the heat (7/13/13)
• Remembering (7/6/13)
• Flossie's weekend family reunion (6/29/13)
• The good ole summertime! (6/22/13)
• Father's Day (6/15/13)
• Bushwhacker memories (6/8/13)
• Social what? (6/1/13)
• Memorials -- as varied as our lives (5/25/13)
• Our part in Armed Forces Day (5/18/13)
• Mother's Day memories (5/11/13)
• Flossie prepares for spring weather (5/4/13)
• Citizens on watch (4/19/13)
• Flossie the gardener (4/13/13)
• Spring cleaning (4/6/13)
• Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone (3/16/13)
• So this is what they've been talking about (2/23/13)
• Presidents Day (2/16/13)
• Saturday mail chorus (2/9/13)
• Always something to celebrate (2/1/13)
• What are you doing for the next 20 years? (1/26/13)
• Love is in the air (1/19/13)
• Flossie on gun control (1/12/13)
• 2012: time to review (1/5/13)
• Happy 2013! (12/29/12)
• Merry Christmas! (12/21/12)
• Flossie writes yellow press (12/14/12)
• 'Our Robin is Read ...' (12/8/12)
• Just waiting for Christmas (11/30/12)
• Cold turkey (11/24/12)
• Flossie goes hunting (11/17/12)
• Back to basics (11/10/12)
• See you at the polls! (11/3/12)
• Happy Halloween (10/27/12)
• Scare time again! (10/20/12)
• Settling in for winter (10/13/12)
• Flossie debates Columbus Day (10/6/12)
• Cooking up the harvest (9/29/12)
• Opening day of autumn! (9/22/12)
• Who are you? (9/15/12)
• A family funeral (9/8/12)
• How to get the job done (9/1/12)
• Thyroid cancer walk-through (8/18/12)
• Back into the swing of things (8/11/12)
• Ah, that healthy glow (8/4/12)
• Who I'll vote for (7/28/12)
• Some things can change (7/21/12)
• How lucky are you? (7/14/12)
• How hot is it? (7/7/12)
• What does July 4 mean to you? (6/30/12)
• Men at work (6/23/12)
• Happy Father's Day (6/15/12)
• Bushwhacker Days! (6/9/12)
• Hair (6/2/12)
• Memorial Day weekend (5/26/12)
• May Day your way (4/30/10)
• Some good news! (4/24/10)
• Slow down -- wave (4/17/10)
• Let's go on a grand quest! (4/10/10)
• Made where? (3/13/10)
• Before I forget... (3/6/10)
• I have an opinion too! (2/20/10)
• Waiting on changes (2/13/10)
• Weather -- take a guess (2/6/10)
• Katie comes home! (1/9/10)
• Welcome 2010! (1/2/10)
• The long cold week (12/26/09)
• Merry Christmas! (12/19/09)
• Making snow ice cream long distance (12/12/09)
• Early shopping (12/5/09)
• What is Alzheimer's disease? (11/14/09)
• Ten warning signs of Alzheimer's disease (11/7/09)
• Times of our lives (10/17/09)
• Pass it on! (10/3/09)
• Do you just need more dirt? (9/26/09)
• Behave yourself! (9/19/09)
• Sit a spell (9/12/09)
• Summer's last hurrah! (9/5/09)