Caring Lessons Debuts in South Dakota
Thanks to Jason Kurtz for starting South Dakota Writes last spring. SDW has brought together hundreds of writers in South Dakota who meet up on Facebook and at in-person venues. They hosted a Winter Author Book Fair in Sioux Falls on Saturday, December 10, 2016. Caring Lessons was there! A very fun thing that happens …
A little bit of kindness can go a long way…
I’ve had it with mudslinging, most of it untrue, and thought it would stop after the election, but it hasn't, so I want to write about being kind. I got the idea this morning when I was sitting in a coffee shop and overheard a conversation. A gal was interviewing for a job that could …
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Just found this sweet memory from a few years ago--2011. I still don't cook... Yesterday we went to Michigan for a get-together with my side of the family. For most of my adult life, we went to my brother’s every year. Ever since he passed away six years ago, his son h… Source: Happy Thanksgiving!
A Thanksgiving Day prayer in a riven land | National Catholic Reporter
A prayer to consider on this Thanksgiving Day in the United States. I admire writer Sr Joan Chittister's courage and candor. She gave me much to contemplate. From Where I Stand: We must be thankful for memory -- the memory of the values and ideals this country has bred into us since its inception. (Click …
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Our First Day of “Brutal”
We'd been warned, of course. "Just wait," we'd heard. "Winters here are brutal." So it happened; winter started today. I awoke to my usual news station: sections of I-90 closed; schools closed across the state, from Rapid City on the west to us, Sioux Falls, on the east. All schools, I think, but my grandchildren's' …
Can I Forgive?
The power of words... to hurt. My long-time blogging friend hopes to educate by telling her story. As a woman, I wholeheartedly join her in her mission.
Meeting My Same Name New Friend
Imagine checking your emails and seeing one from yourself. A similar thing happened to me in September of 2015; I opened my blog one morning to find a comment written on a post by "Lois Roelofs." Imagine my surprise. How could that be? I had not written myself. I opened up the comment and read: …
Drowning in Applesauce
I never dreamed I’d complain about applesauce. But picking apples and making applesauce have become my husband’s new BIG hobby. It started when he helped his sister pick her apples while visiting in MN a few weeks ago. When we got home, he started on our daughter’s trees. And then the applesauce binge started. After …
OLLI, Apples, and Books
Fall: a new season, a new home, a new town, a new everything. Now what? We spent our first three months in Sioux Falls getting settled in our twin home and often feeding our kids and grandkids whose kitchen was being remodeled. We’ve completed those tasks now, and I look out the window of our …
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