Did you grow up with a set table with a family meal to sit down to each day? Maybe it’s utopia but I did. And most days, we still sit down together as a family to eat together. And the table is set. Sometimes it’s two times a day and sometimes we miss a meal together because of evening games…
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Each day I am home, I have lunch guests. Making a nutritious meal matters to me. But with the fall chill, a hot and hearty meal is a must. One day this week, Miss A and I cleaned out the fridge of all the veggies and some leftover pork and made what I call “Once Around the Kitchen”, using whatever…
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When I was stuck in snow in South Dakota last weekend, in the storm that is now termed Storm Atlas, a woman named Pam from Florida charged her phone in my snow-covered car. She was not happy to have traveled with her tour group to not get to see Mt. Rushmore because of the government shutdown. The snow and Mother…
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I drove last Thursday 362 miles from my prairie home in North Dakota to the Black Hills of South Dakota to speak at a conference of the South Dakota Rural Women of Agriculture. I was going to speak first thing in the morning and then hit the road again to drive 185 miles north to speak at another conference, Rural…
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Social media has its way of giving us unrealistic expectations of what we should be doing in our lives, with our families, for our marriages or for ourselves. It’s nothing new for us to have unrealistic expectations on our lives. Leave It To Beaver reruns set me up for unrealistic expectations decades ago. Yesterday, I was giving a webinar and…
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