Events

As the last hours and minutes of 2020 arrive and leave us for the new year of 2021, hopefully we are all looking ahead to a new year full of marked improvements. In a 2020 hindsight, it seems as if any change in the current state of affairs will be an improvement for...

The dark, dismal year of 2020 is slowly coming to an end. Can we all take a moment or two to reflect upon what has almost become history? After all, it is good to reflect upon past events to discover what they are worth and what we might be able to take with us into...

November normally is a month for giving thanks. We have a scheduled election day, Veterans Day for remembering those who have served this country, and of course Thanksgiving Day for being thankful. Still, the Mensa experience continues to change because of the social...

October can be a month that is full of surprises, and this year things are perhaps even more uncertain in the way they’re going. By now most of us understand the pandemic aspects which have fallen upon us – but, what else is planned in a cultural and social way for...

TRANSITION TIME EDITION Have you noticed that the weather is starting to turn cool again? Well, the Autumn Equinox and the fall months – not to mention anything about the start of local hybrid school options -- approach and are starting to fall upon us perhaps sooner...

SCHEDULING OPTIONS EDITION Across Mid-America Mensa (MAM), Americans are being asked to wear a cloth face mask when out in public settings to reduce the spread of COVID-19. In addition, some of us will be going back to school if our communities wish to adopt the...

PARTIAL RE-OPENING EDITION Does the weather where you are make you think of summer? It certainly does feel like July, albeit without the Annual Gathering here in KC this month, in Mid-America Mensa. Okay, it is summer; partial re-opening is exactly what we all really...