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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...