Little Pasture on the Prairie

By Eliza Blue Ten years ago this week, I left Minneapolis and rolled into a tiny town on the prairie. It was meant to be a temporary adventure, but when I crossed the Missouri River, and the landscape abruptly shifted to moonscape, I started to cry.

On Funerals

I have missed many funerals in my life, and we have all missed funerals of late, obeying rules which may or may not reduce other funerals. Some funerals I have missed occurred while I was away and didn’t hear about the person’s passing until the services were over and done.

Some optimism for the new year

As we close out the year, I want to thank our readers, local and around the country, our advertisers and printing customers, our news sources and contributors, our hardworking staff, our suppliers, our printers at the Mobridge Tribune, and the US Postal Service.

Stray Thoughts: The True Gift

Imagine the very worst type of people committing the worst kind of crimes without a single regret and no punishment yet they repeat the sins time after time they repeat the sins time after time They don’t care who is harmed by their actions who is robbed, who is maimed, or who is killed who is...

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Two years ago, on New Year’s Day, I went out walking to the small pasture where our horses run wild during the winter months. The day was cool but not cold, snowy but not so snowy that I couldn’t hike comfortably across the fields, breathing in the crisp, fresh air.

Little Pasture on the Prairie

This week, temperatures finally dipped below freezing for the first time in a month. With no moisture in the forecast, a chilly, but mostly gray and brown Christmas season appeared inevitable.

Stray Thoughts: When the last shot has sounded

When the ice crystals form on the corn stalks and wheat and the geese take to flight before the low sun retreats the deer take a break from their running around and settle down in the grass where the sun warms the ground and gaze at each other in the quietest way remembering those who aren’t...

Superintendents’ statement on budget proposal

The Executive Board of the South Dakota School Superintendents Association issues the following statement in response to Governor Noem’s budget address: We are genuinely grateful to the Honorable Governor Kristi Noem for proposing a budget that includes legislation directly in line with the “Blue...

Little Pasture on the Prairie

Editor’s Note: This week the Topic welcomes a new columnist, Eliza Blue, who has been writing for the past seven years from her ranch home near Bison.

Winter Memories

As I write this, on the 8th of December, it is “winter”, yet winter, as I remember it, has yet to arrive… not a single snowflake can be found anywhere.