Featured Post June 3, 2025 Harvesting the experience of your years Here’s an interesting tidbit I’ve recently learned – the term, legacy, is a loaded word. And there is an invisible… Read Article
Featured Post June 3, 2025 From words to action – middle schoolers for the win Middle schoolers! What a revelation they are! Over the last five weeks, I’ve spent quality time with several of them,… Read Article
Community Introspections The bandit look is all the rage (Author’s Note: The CVC website has been down for awhile so the blog posts have been delayed. This was written…
Community Introspections The view from the dining room table – week 9 (Author’s Note: The CVC website has been down for awhile so the blog posts have been delayed. This was written…
Community Introspections Cheers to gratitude and generosity A song I have on continuous loop in my head these last few weeks has been “Strange Days Indeed,” by…
Uncategorized Everyone leaves a legacy – what’s yours? [Author’s note: For all those who missed the mea culpa column I wrote the week after the Moving to Mississippi…
Community Introspections No moving boxes needed Wow. I am nearly speechless, which you know is a rare occurrence for me. When I wrote the post last week…
Introspections Home Town I have some big news and you are the first to find out. I haven’t even broken it to Mike,…
Introspections Make 2020 the year you go for it It’s the end of a decade. Isn’t that amazing? I am not in the camp that says 2021 is actually…
Community Introspections More turkey, less talk I’ve written past columns about civility, divisiveness, throwing babies out with bathwater, and the pure vitriol being spewed about all…
Community Community Events +1 Word of the day: unique Dear Readers, today’s Word of the Day is unique. Or as my mom would pronounce it, you-nih-kew. Unique, no matter…
Introspections Reading is (my) life From my earliest memories, I’ve wanted to read. At a very young age, I remember standing with my mom at…
Uncategorized Stoicism admirable, just not me When you attempt to describe a person, adjectives usually come easily. Take me for example. (I’m sure my family often…
Uncategorized Expressing gratitude with an old fashioned note Hello, everyone! I’m just back from a riotous time in Huron, South Dakota, at the National Junior High Finals Rodeo. …