“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” At our local county fair this past weekend a group of cowboys organized a ranch rodeo. The “intermission” was…
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It was eight years ago today. I went to the airport gate counter as my name was called by the gate agent in Minneapolis. She just about handed me a first class upgrade. Until the next gate agent said, “Oh wait. We have a “Platinum” here that gets that 4B seat.” She handed a man in a blue shirt the…
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Rhubarb is a staple food in our corner of the prairie. It has grown for generations, surviving blistering summer heat and wind whipping winters. My memories of rhubarb are spreading my Grandma Nola’s rhubarb jam on bread, rhubarb pies from my grandma, mom and now mother-in-law, my mother-in-law’s fabulous rhubarb meringue dessert, and my mom’s rhubarb slush. I am a…
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Fatherhood is a choice. Unfortunately, the world seems to be lacking active fathers that choose to serve as leaders and show love to their children. There is a shortage of father figures. A shortage of male mentors. I am a mother. I once was a single mother, without a father in our home, raising a son. Mothers are vital to…
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Have you set a goal before and never found a way to reach it? I have. More times than I have fingers and toes. I am a goal setting person. Goals keep my focus in life. A goal is a dream with a deadline. I have written that saying down on paper a hundred times in my life. As a…
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