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...

Garden harvest is in full swing, with more ripe tomatoes coming every day (though what seems like a snail’s pace). I’ve cleaned up certain plots 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...

At long last, the story can be told. A tale so unbelievable, one might assume it was conjured by artificial intelligence. To borrow a line from...

The past several weeks my bride of 30 years and I have closely resembled squirrels. Like those fuzzy little rodents hoarding nuts and seeds, and...

This time of year, despite the memories of having to go back to school, has always been one of my favorites.As the summer begins to lose its...

This week I picked my first pumpkin from our patch and officially dubbed it pumpkin season. It may be a smaller baking pumpkin (and there may be at...

You don’t have to do it now, but before the weekend ends, if you could blow off the doormat and change the light bulb in the kitchen. That was a...

Garden harvest season is here and that means preserving something almost daily right now. I don’t always go into the garden every day, but there’s...

There is freedom in frugality. Frivolous shopping leads to buyer’s remorse and unwanted clutter around your house, not to mention putting a dent in...

If It’s too good to be true.How many times have I uttered those words to my kids, trying to impart some of my infinite wisdom? Well, perhaps it was...

I probably should have known better—for several reasons. It’s not like my brother had ever cut me a deal in the past.There was the time he sold me...

It’s now August and I’m trying not to think about it being the last month of the summer, because as a homeschooling family, that doesn’t actually...