I’ve always loved the area around Medora, N.D. The Badlands seem so pure and mysterious. I was a little nervous when I first heard about the p…

We have been in a drought all summer. I hope by the time you read this that I have been made a liar.

My grandson has had struggles in his life, first with deafness as a toddler, corrected by surgery, and followed by challenges with speech. He …

It happened after supper. I was standing on our small front patio and watering the strawberry bed on one side. Behind me were flowers and a sm…

I got a hug from a stranger in Walmart today. It sounds weird and well, it kind of was. Let me back up a little to explain. I like to make jew…

I am an orphan now, and even at my age, as the mother of three children and grandmother to six, it feels strange – and sad. My mother was 99 y…

As the Fourth of July approaches, I find I am reflecting on previous Independence Day holidays. These memories seem to fall into three categor…

It has been a very random week, so this “diary” entry will be very random, too.

We have a lot of batteries at our house, just not the ones we need. Batteries are the bane of my existence at times. I don’t want an electric …