PRESSED BETWEEN THE PAGES Life lessons from a steamy kitchen

It was hot! Hot outside and even hotter in the kitchen. Two kettles boiled away on the back burners, steam surging from around the covers and up into the air. The normally appealing scent of cooking potatoes and green beans added to the thickness in the room.

Stray Thoughts: Routines

No matter the circumstances, there are routines we live by.They help us do what we need to do when we need to do them.Farmers and ranchers live by routines to plant and to harvest.Mechanics, cooks, and many others do things in a particular way.As a teacher for over 30 years, I also have routines I...

Prairie Docs: Allergies during pregnancy

Pregnancy is such an incredible state of anticipation. Each day it seems like you’re finding something new to wonder or worry about! Having an allergic or immune system condition can certainly add a few questions and considerations to the list, though.- Is my nose congested from seasonal allergies?

From rags to something like riches

“Oh, no! I spilled!” In my haste to maneuver the big bowl of potatoes across the table to Dad, I bumped my glass. Water flooded across the table, threatening the salt and pepper shakers and the toothpick dispenser.

Home Country: Chickens

Chickens have forever had a place in our hearts and on our tables. Why is that? Well … why not?And so I’d like you to come with me back to the summer of 1970, ‘way up north of Fairbanks, Alaska, to what was once the thriving gold mining village of Chicken, Alaska.

Horizon Health celebrates legacy of innovative care

Horizon Health joins community health centers around the country this August to celebrate National Health Center Week and this year’s theme, “Building Innovative Care Where It Matters Most.”

Stray Thoughts: A practical exercise in AI

To learn about AI, open up ChatGPT.com on your computer.There are many other programs, but this one is very simple.The prompt screen will ask “Where should we begin?”(Remember, this is a machine asking you a pre-programmed question that has been answered many millions of times, with every response...

Stray Thoughts: The best of times and the worst of times

After 30 years of teaching, I am experiencing a new problem.In a few classes, when I assign difficult question sets, like in high school chemistry, they come back perfectly.No wrong answers. You would think I would be pleased.Not so.

LETTER

The Timber Lake Booster Club had a great year supporting our students and athletes. In our first year, we helped sponsor boys and girls basketball camp, football camp, and purchased new weight room equipment for the powerlifting team.

PRESSED BETWEEN THE PAGES: Blessed to Have Them

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” The older I get the more I agree with this statement by Maya Angelou. There are people in this world who simply know how to make others feel special.