I’m sitting on the front porch with my daughter. I’m wearing jeans, a sweatshirt, and a straw hat, my feet bare, my pants rolled up to my knees, revealing the stunning brightness of my …
I have long believed that what happens on your birthday says a lot about the year ahead. This is mostly because what you decide to do on that day says a lot about what you value at that moment. But …
Last week, my daughter came home from school, laid her head down on the kitchen counter, and started to cry. “I’m SO BOOOOOORED!” she sobbed. This was after nearly two weeks with no …
The following is a parable which is to say: It has some truth in it, but I am trying to make a point, not relay facts. I can’t tell you exactly what happened and I’m not trying …
I just finished listening online to a sermon my Episcopalian friend Whitney Kimball Coe gave on Sunday. She begins her message by telling the congregation that while her decorations, including …
It’s seed catalog season again—the most glorious time of the year! Well, perhaps not the most glorious More often than not seed catalog season falls around the same time cabin fever …
It’s cold. So cold the school just called to say they are starting late tomorrow if they start at all (they will re-evaluate in the morning…) So cold the livestock sale barn where my …
I wrote last week about the death of a beloved community member. I did not expect to be writing another column about the same topic this week, but, after another huge loss, I can’t imagine …
The weather finally turned cold this week. Yesterday, we got our first substantial snowfall, and today the windchill temps are well below zero. Winter has very much arrived. Of course, that also …
Much of the midwest and west was blanketed in snow for Christmas this year, but my daughter spent the afternoon of Christmas Eve sunbathing on the porch in shorts and a t-shirt because Western South …
In the winter, I often bring warm water to the chickens. Kitty, the unofficial queen of the coop, always gets to the water first, and as is her custom, pecks authoritatively at the head of anyone who …
The house we bought at the edge of town sits on three acres that used to be a sheep yard. In addition to the small, red barn on the east side of the property, there is an even smaller white shed that …
Winter is almost here? I guess it’s not following the calendar date. Although, I have to say we have a couple of beautiful days this weekend. We headed home from Jamestown Sunday …
My daughter’s birth day is a week before Christmas, which she loves. “I get twice as many presents!” she of ten reminds her broth er, who has to wait until June to get a sec ond …
My daughter’s birthday is a week before Christmas, which she loves. “I get twice as many presents!” she often reminds her brother, who has to wait until June to get a second wave of …
Last week… Birthday wishes to Ethan Harsche, Tokyo, Japan, and Curt Schaf, Fort Yates. Angie Quilan and girls, Mandan visited her parents, Gerard and Tess Kraft, last week end. Lots of deer …
Hopefully every one had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Willy and Lenore Mosset went to Mandan to their daughter, Debbie’s, for Thanksgiving. There were many friends and family members there to …
The flower for December is the Narcissus, and the birth stone is the Turquoise. Our sympathy to the family and friends of Dorothy Hauge who died November 26, 2024, in Mandan. May she rest in …
