Getting Back to Life

It is time to get back to the business of life and find our new normal. There are many things that are uncertain right now. There is much that is not known about COVID-19 and what will happen once people start going back to life under whatever the new normal will be.

Life in the Slow Lane?

I am not one who often remembers their dreams upon waking up. However, last week was one of the rare times that I had a dream that I remember quite well. It was a very odd dream to say the least. COVID-19 has made a huge impact on all our lives in the last few months.

Looking Down Main

I may be exaggerating, I have been known to do that at times, but I do believe I have gotten more yard work done already than I did during all of last summer. It is hard to describe how good it feels to have some energy again. I may not quite have a spring in my step.

Guest Columnist

After losing three weeklies and experiencing painful belt-tightening all across the industry, North Dakota didn’t need a pandemic to push local newspapers closer to the brink.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I became aware of the anonymous letters before Sally’s article in last week’s VALLEY NEWS & VEIWS. Anonymity is not bad in itself as in the case of the person who donated funds for Drayton Senior medical travel. Hiding behind an anonymous identity to attack someone is cowardly.

Capitol Insight

To say the least, the last few months have been a new experience. Who would have ever believed the country, let alone basically the world, would shut down in the face of a pandemic?

Pastor Leroy’s Column

Nehemiah, upon returning to Jerusalem from Persia, quickly discovered that God’s house and its ministers had been neglected during his absence. He wrote, “Then contended I with the rulers, and said, why is the house of God forsaken?” (13:11).

KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1723 “Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut falls; finches wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough, And all trades, their gear and...

Repose

“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings.” - Charlie Wardle In the quiet simplicity of solitude and presence, there is a perfect stream of sacred alignment unfolding.

Ask Rusty – Should My Wife Take Her Social Security at Age 62?

Dear Rusty: I have been advised by my financial planner to start my wife’s social security benefits at the age of 62 (she is now 61). I am 65 and still employed, not on Medicare, and not taking social security benefits. My wife’s benefits are much less than mine.