I was coming out of a large clinic on the west side of the city early this afternoon and it was clear there was some kind of fracas ensuing. Now, this clinic is designed primarily for orthopedics, physical therapy, exercise and the like with a little bit of cardiology thrown in. So the people you…
Readers, I hope you will forgive me. I had planned to just continue posting to my blog as usual after my rotator cuff surgery on March 13. Instead, I’m finding typing to be almost impossible. So I’ve missed last week and because I don’t want to leave you without anything this week, I’m offering you…
[Just a note to my faithful readers: this is my 100th post to this blog since I started writing weekly. When I have been tempted to walk away, you have kept me here. Thank you so much!] Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. For whatever reason, he decided not to…
I was searching for my childhood copy of Uncle Remus stories, the topic of which had come up lately as part of a conversation about racial divides in this country. It’s hard to find a copy of those stories today that has not been edited to make it more acceptable. I’m told…
It has been said that there are around 365 incidents in the Bible that say either “Fear not” or “Be not afraid.” The actual number may be more in the neighborhood of 100 including both the Old or First Testament and New or Second Testament. There are plenty of quotations having to do with fear…
I never have far from my mind a certain legislator who served in the South Dakota House and later the Senate in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. Marvis Hogen was among his many walks of life a rancher and hardware store owner from Kadoka. And Marvis will long be remembered especially among those in…
I was never left home alone as a child. My parents always made certain someone older was with me – usually Opal, our babysitter. Opal would come to our house when long stays were required, which wasn’t very often. My younger brother and I would go to Opal and Ray’s house for a shorter span…