Stray Thoughts Of parents and kids

It doesn’t start out this way, but it becomes a sort of contest showing your kids how to do this, that, and the other thing better than it was shown to you. Speaking to them in a way that ensures they truly understand what you are saying and what it means when they understand.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Both colanders are filled to the brim, as are my two biggest mixing bowls. The countertops are teeming as well. There are cucumbers waiting to be pickles, tomatoes waiting to be sauce, and zucchini waiting to be artfully hidden in nearly every meal I make from now until the first frost.

Questions, kudos, and congratulations

Questions, questions. That’s how many of our news stories begin. This week we couldn’t get around to finding answers to all of them, but then, we never do run out of story ideas to pursue.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Last year, after a summer of cancelled shows, I found myself daydreaming about sharing stories and songs in a new way.

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.