That sounds like a headline one would see in a tabloid while waiting in a supermarket checkout line.The story was told to me by a wonderful woman named Jane who lives in Pelican Rapids. She lives in a beautiful area, with her home situated right along a lake. This is...
Steve and Cheryl Eno are deer people who live in rural Nebraska. Steve and Cheryl have worked hard all of their lives in order to situate themselves in a location where they would be able to enjoy nature from every window of their house. They have landscaped their...
I wanted a dog in the worst way. Oh, we had a dog on the farm, a good cattle dog named Bruce, but he was Dad's dog. I wanted a dog of my own. I wanted a dog that would follow me around like Bruce followed Dad. I wanted a dog that would look to my eyes for the answers....
I had had a bad day in school. I wasn't very old and I had a last name of Batt. That can be a tough combination. One of the other kids had made fun of my last name. I tried not to let it bother me. But it did.I tried to ignore my tormentor, but soon a bunch of other...
I went off to college with a head full of mush and no money.I needed a job. If there were no job, there would be no college. I found a part-time job and it was a dandy. It was a dream job-if you were the kind who had a lot of nightmares.The job I had was cleaning the...
My mother was a fine woman. She really was. No matter how poorly she felt, no matter how tough a day she was having, if you asked her how she was, she would answer, "Fine."Mother had not had an easy life. Her German-immigrant father had died when she was 15. She had...
Bill was my friend. We had grown up and gone to school together, but had not spent much time in one another's company for some years. Friends may drift apart, but a childhood friendship is nearly impossible to dissolve. There have been too many shared experiences-too...