Letter to the editor

To the editor: I wanted to take this opportunity to share important information regarding the upcoming general election, which will be held November 8th. South Dakota voters have the choice of voting in-person on Election Day or by casting an absentee ballot.

Stray Thoughts: In the blink of an eye

Twenty-one years have passed but barely a tick on the second hand since my son was born, my wife fighting for her life from blood loss. Hearing the panic in the young doctor’s voice and seeing the look of terror on his face as he was losing my wife in front of me was more than any man could take.

You are supporting more than just the newspaper

This week is National Newspaper Week – an annual celebration of the special role that newspapers have in our nation. Since well before our statehood in 1889, newspapers have staked a claim in helping to build and connect residents and communities in our great state. Today, that role continues.

Transferrable Skills

I love sports. I have enjoyed playing and watching sports for as long as I can remember.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

There’s probably no animal on our ranch I’ve written about more than Mama Cat. For one thing, she’s been here almost as long as I have. For another, before her arrival we had a hard time keeping barn cats on the ranch.

Stray Thoughts: Anticipation

It starts around this time of year. I get tired all the time; more tired than I should be. More tired than I can attribute to anything I’ve done. So I rest more…much more than should be healthy. Along with my exhaustion comes the hunger.

Ask, then act

One summer during my college years, I had a roommate who suffered from suicidal thoughts. She’d attempted suicide before we met, and been hospitalized, but continued to struggle.

Stray Thoughts: Less and More

The older I get, the more I seem to want both less and more. Less time wasted in pointless conversations outside of work. Less mind-numbing drama at work. Less politics. Less time explaining what intelligent people should know by now. Less time at clinics and hospitals.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

The big pickle jar is packed with sharp, spicy smells, and bobbing green pickles. Garlic and pepper corns float along the surface of the brine, while the slender brown stems of dill lay stuffed beneath the cucumbers.

Your Reality

These two: Thoughts and Words have gotten you where you are today. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” ~ Proverbs 23.