Little Pasture on the Prairie

Today, as I threw open the curtains, I told the kids, “It’s May! Spring has sprung!” Sun streamed in through the window, and as I gazed across the prairie, I saw that it was true: a brilliant green mist gleamed amidst the bent stems of last year’s grasses.

Home Country: Car trouble

It was like buzzards circling the body.The Jones kid, Randy, was out in the Mule Barn coffee shop parking lot with the hood up on his car. He was staring down into it the way a first-time parachutist would look out the airplane door. You never quite knew for sure what lay ahead.

CANDLES AND MIRRORS: Warm Fuzzy Memories

Have you ever had a flashback that is so amazingly clear that you see that moment in time as though it just happened? Every one of your senses joins in the remembering and you can actually feel the same emotions you felt so long ago?.The door of the school bus creaked and thudded shut behind me.

Home Country: Old sayings are wise?

There are those who believe that old sayings are wise because someone now dead said them or wrote them or carved them into the cave walls a long time ago. But it’s our journalistic duty to laugh at ones that are just ridiculous.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR . . .

Dear Editor, On Wednesday, April 23 an elementary student came into the office to show me something. He quietly handed me his mom’s phone and on the full screen was a picture of him on the front page of the Timber Lake Topic. The student said “I am big.” I smiled and said, “yes you are.

The golden rules of dementia

Dementia is a progressive condition that results in decline in cognitive function. People with dementia have increasing difficulties with short term memory, thinking, and reasoning. For family members it can be hard to watch the decline in a loved one who is struggling with dementia.

Spring is finally here

Spring is finally here, and for many of us that brings the joy of returning to outdoor activities, planning summer vacations, and… well, allergies.

Home Country

Did you know …which is the oldest settlement in the United States? Forget Jamestown. Forget Roanoke. Forget St. Augustine. According to book learning, the oldest settlement in the United States is Acoma Pueblo, which sits on top of a 365-foot-high mesa in the middle of New Mexico.

Stray Thoughts: What we hold on to

In a box at home I have my original social security card… we should keep track of important government documents.But I also have my Bachelor of Rhymes from Kindergarten graduation, which the government probably doesn’t need.

Zip code matters

Those of us who make our homes in the rural midwest understand that we face medical challenges our countrymen in more populated areas don’t. For example, there are two pediatric rheumatologists in the whole state of South Dakota. . . and they are both based in Fargo (ND).