Because there was so much pain and so much grief around the time my brother died—I was abandoned by my extended family, mostly because I lived here and they lived…
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WNIJ Perspective: It’s Time for More Research on This Rare Disease When Amy Anderson stumbled, she heard a loud pop. Her ankle had completely folded over. She’d torn her…
A gentleman on Facebook asked me to say how I know Christianity is true. My post questioning God about King Saul prompted his questions and our conversation. Eric is particularly…
Clover has nearly reached up to Morgen’s bridle. She can drop her nose and snatch a purple flower. About a month ago, the field was newly shorn, nearly down to…
Despite road noises, the air itself was quiet when I walked out. Everything was washed gray, the sky, the air, the distant trees and farms. As I turned the corner…
July 3, 2025 Last week Friday, I dreamed thousands of books had to be moved “yesterday“ because my time at school was done. Their spines were all kinds of colors,…
Fiasco. Every year Bruce mutters fiasco. “But it works out,“ I say. I remember the time a storm sped down from Minnesota soaking raked rows of hay“”500 bales worth. But…
I walk out the week after Little Dog died and saw another rainbow, so faint it looked like a ghost. It was a rare rainbow off to the west with…
Kathy Bates as Matlock speaks a truth we know well as elderly women. “Well, you see, there’s this funny thing that happens when women age. We become damn near invisible,“…
“Nuclear showdown proves Trump’s incompetence. Or, as Walter Kirn put it, ending the world to own Trump,“ says Matt Taibbi in his essay, Ending the World to Own Trump on…