What is in your own backyard...

When planning a vacation is it easy to overlook what is in our own backyard so to speak. This year the theme of the North Dakota ad campaign is to be legendary. There are numerous billboards to attest to this fact.

Life in the Slow Lane?

Blessings come in all forms. You just never know when or where the next one will come from. Lyle and I have never really taken the time to go on vacations. There was always some reason why we couldn’t. First, we were busy raising kids and money was tight, so we stayed home.

Looking Down Main

Sometimes it is best to know one’s own limits. I remind myself of this on a regular basis given the long list of limits the Good Lord bestowed upon me. One of the many things I would like to have been good at is shooting.

Guest Columnist

A committee of petitioners is proposing a constitutional amendment that would limit future North Dakota legislators to eight years of service.

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, No national election this year—yeah! No Trump or Biden signs—Double Yeah! But that doesn’t mean I saw no “signs of our times.” On my walks around Walla Walla, Drayton and the Twin Cities. Some of my favorites were in my sister’s neighborhood: “I have my library card; do you have yours?

Along the Way

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” - Edith Warton In the paradigm of life’s sacred alignment, balance comes in the reflection of personal healing and wisdom. Nobody has walked another soul’s path and so one cannot assume they know what is best.

Ask Rusty

Dear Rusty: I was born in 1956 and my wife in 1961. I’ve got 45 years of SSA earnings, and I will have income in 2021. We have 4 minor children, the youngest born in 2012. When is the best time for us to apply for benefits? Are we eligible for family benefits? My statement infers that we are.

From my Window

I struggle with humility, or should I say the lack there of. This is not a new problem. In his letter to the First Century Church, James admonishes them for taking pride in things of the world (James 4: 1-10). This pride takes the place of humility in my life.

Bowesmont Lives

Saralee Hoselton went with the PCMT van to Grafton on Tuesday and to Grand Forks on Thursday. On Wednesday Mike and Judy Stellon and Murph and Patti Thompson went to Frostfire where they had the lunch and saw the musical “The Marvelous Wonderettes”.

We the People

Some readers may remember that their introduction to this ancient phrase came when they picked up a copy of Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, “Advise and Consent,” which described a passionate and energetic U.S.