LETTER

Timber Lake Paper: I enjoy the tidbits of the paper from afar. I was raised in Mobridge late 40’s and early 50’s. Attended the rodeos at Timber Lake, Isabel, Dupree and Faith during that time with family. Worked a couple of weeks one summer at the Glen French Ranch. Glen and Nora were super people.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

I love to garden. I started out with potted tomatoes on a fire escape in New York City, then tubs of herbs and flowers and coffee cans teeming with chamomile blossoms on a rooftop in Minneapolis, and now I have a sprawling yard on the western range where sunshine and space are never in short supply.

‘I’m one of the lucky ones’

Cancer. There’s a word that’ll get your attention. It got mine last fall when I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. I suppose a cancer diagnosis shouldn’t shock anyone. It’s almost the norm in America.

Jim wasn’t one of the lucky ones — but you could be

My late husband Jim’s story was a little different from Tony Bender’s (above). Jim was diagnosed with esophageal cancer on July 19, 2013 and died 10 weeks later.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

I suspect any western Dakotan would acknowledge that, no matter how much we love the land, March is not our region’s most attractive time.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

I sit down to write with a nubby afghan draped around my shoulders. The deep cold of last week’s polar vortex has passed, the nights of worrying about double digit negative temperatures over, hopefully, for a while.

Stray Thoughts: Crossword

Have you ever listened to someone who is really good at something explaining that thing to someone who has no idea about that concept? There are two basic ways this plays out.

A Vaccine Story for the Ages

Last summer we heard the prediction that by the end of 2020, we would have a safe, effective vaccine to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which had only been discovered, of course, in December 2019, before causing countless deaths and mayhem in the world as we knew it. I must admit, I was skeptical.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

“During the most recent cold snap, for a brief moment, we lived in the coldest place on earth. You read that right folks, THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH. Colder than Alaska, colder than the wind-battered Russian steppes; colder, even, than Santa’s digs at the North Pole.

S.D. Senators comment on Trump acquittal

U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-SD): “The impeachment trial is over and former President Trump has been acquitted. My vote to acquit should not be viewed as exoneration for his conduct on January 6, 2021, or in the days and weeks leading up to it.