Stray Thoughts: The Power of Art

On a long, smoky trip across Montana my son wondered why he had to travel all these hours, spend all this lost time on a hot, bumpy car ride to accompany his sister and mother to an event he would not even be attending. I told him we also had a treat for him. My son is a “creative”...

Respecting Choices

This summer I attended the celebration of life service for Dr. Rick Holm, the original Prairie Doc who founded this newspaper column, a radio show and a television show now entering its twentieth season.

Thank You

The Robert Munyon family would like to express their deepest gratitude to Courtney Dahlgren for stopping to help Mom and to the Timber Lake ambulance crew for their response. Thank you to all the people who sent cards, food, flowers, phone calls, and visited Mom at the house.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

When I was growing up we lived in a very small house which became all the smaller as the family grew and the house didn't. My sister and I shared a bedroom next to my brothers’, and both were just a few steps from the living room and kitchen.

Stray Thoughts: Speechless

Let’s just say for the sake of argument that you had been involved in a twenty-year war in another country that had cost your country upwards of $2,000,000,000,000 and thousands of dead and tens of thousands of wounded personnel.

LETTER

To the editor: Protection of individual freedom or liberties is among the essential elements of our democracy. The most important of these liberties are enumerated in the Bill of Rights and others emerge out of statutory law and judicial rulings.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

July 25th, 2010. Somewhere in South Dakota “I am sitting on a hillside somewhere in South Dakota. The wind is blowing hard and smells sweet, but the sun is so hot I feel like I am being baked like a loaf of bread. I take a deep breath and it feels like the first breath I have ever taken.

The Prairie Doc: First Day of School

“First day of school! Wake up! Come on. First day of school,” the little fish shouts at his dad in the opening scene of Finding Nemo. The first day of school is an important transition for students of all ages, and it is often a challenging one.

Transitions

Students love the transition from summer to school. Oh, sure, they complain about losing some free time and that they will have to begin schoolwork again.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

The kids and I spent the week driving around the state of South Dakota with our teardrop camper. I played a few shows, we met up with the crew to film the next episode of my musical travelogue “Wish You Were Here,’ we sat on back porches and front porches, we went to the zoo.