My mind seems to be drifting to the days of yesteryear today. First came the news of the passing of Ace Frehley. Then our youngest son—who’s now...

I love my chickens. I didn’t grow up with chickens, and I never aspired to be a crazy chicken lady, but it just sort of happened. This year...

 Mid-October. This was the time of year when my hunting buddy Dan and I would take a weekend off from hitting the duck sloughs. It wasn’t because...

 Autumn is a season of transformation — the leaves turn brilliant colors, the air takes on a crisp coolness, and all of nature prepares for rest....

When I was growing up, October always seemed like a pivotal month. The leaves turned into flaming shades of red and orange, and the hills of...

We’ve got 2 young apple trees and our son has 2 well established apple trees at his house and the apples are beautiful. I have no idea what variety...

October always hits differently for me, because I realize how quickly the end of the calendar year is approaching, which means Christmas is a...

The folowing is a "Best of Rabbit Hole" that appeared in the Heat of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 As luck would have it our...

Do you have a personal or family ritual that you hold to on the weekends? Our weekend starts the moment my husband gets home from work Friday...

One of those fun seasonal meals that I make only once a year, like farmers market ratatouille, is dinner in a pumpkin. It’s essentially soup in a...

My faithful hound had been looking forward to the weekend all week. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I could have sworn I heard him singing Loverboy's...

It was bound to happen.It’s been years since my blushing bride has abandoned me.In all fairness, she’s been asking when we would return to visit...

Do you ever get that feeling like the world is just really heavy right now? Not that we have to wrestle with this weight on our own, but it just...

By Tim L. Waltner“A gut punch.”That’s how David Bordewyk, executive director of the South Dakota NewsMedia Association, described the abrupt closure of four newspapers in...

This summer has been a crazy, busy, fun, productive, building, exchanging, growing season for me, personally. It has been a lot to mentally juggle...