The Ritzville Adams County Journal - Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887

I’m sure that as you look at the title to this particular column, you are probably thinking I need to be slapped. Fair enough. I guess it would be in all of our best interests to just be depressed and give up. It will never get better.

But we all have to be smarter and tougher than that. There are enough ‘woe is me’ people that don’t appreciate a thing that they have, and the more they get the worse off they are.

My parents got married five years into this nation’s depression, and a year later welcomed their first child into this world. I think that took a lot of trust and love t...