Ralph and Dorothy Kohler got married in Tekamah, Nebraska, in 1935. He was 18 years old, and she was 17. He is now 104 and she is 103. They’re still together and recently celebrated their 86th wedding anniversary on September 16 at their home in Indio, California.

That makes them America’s oldest living married couple.

They almost didn’t make it to the altar. Their first attempt to get hitched was unsuccessful, as a court official who believed they were too young, denied them a marriage license. They simply went elsewhere, exchanged vows, and the rest, as they say, is history.

How have they stayed together all these years?

“Togetherness,” Ralph told KESQ in Thousand Palms, California.

Ralph credits a willingness by each of them to compromise. For example, he loved clay target shooting, while she loved ballroom dancing. So, each took up the other’s hobby so they could participate together. That led to numerous awards for the couple from competitions all over the United States in both trapshooting as well as dancing.

Did they ever fight?

“A sharp word once in a while, maybe, but it didn’t last,” Ralph said.

If there was a competition for most pro-life state in the Union, Texas would certainly be in the running.

On September 1, 2021, Texas became the first state to successfully prohibit abortions pre-viability for the first time since the Supreme Court decreed abortions to be legalized nationwide in Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed another pro-life bill into law.

Texas Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4) regulates the use of the medication that causes a chemical abortion, also referred to as the abortion pill. The abortion pill is actually two drugs given days apart, mifepristone and misoprostol, that essentially cause an early miscarriage.

The bill imposes several requirements on the use of the abortion pill.

First, it prohibits any abortionist from prescribing a woman the abortion pill after her preborn baby reaches seven weeks gestation.

It also restricts the use of telemedicine as a way for abortionists to prescribe the abortion pill. This practice began during the COVID-19 pandemic, after pro-abortion groups sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its rule that the first dose of the abortion pill (mifepristone) must be provided in person.

It’s likely you’ve never heard of Reuben Klamer, the Ohio-born inventor and entrepreneur credited with being the mastermind behind the “Game of Life” — the ubiquitous board game that’s been a staple of family entertainment since 1960.

Mr. Klamer, who died on September 14th at the age of 99, manufactured and sold the hula hoop with Art Linkletter, in addition to designing hundreds of other toys. But it was the 3D board game featuring plastic bridges, cars with pink and blue sticks and the quest for success for which the intrepid and enterprising businessman was best known.

With over 70 million copies sold in 59 countries, the “Game of Life” is the second-bestselling board game of all time, next to “Monopoly.”

But if Reuben Klamer had gotten his way, it may never have been.

It was the late 1950s when Klamer, a former advertising man and marketer, pitched the idea for an art kit for children to the Milton Bradley Company. His idea was rejected — but they asked him to come up with a board game to help celebrate the company’s upcoming 100th birthday in 1960.