Lifestyles

Happy Trails with Dawni O'Bryan: You've Got to Be Kidding Me

| Dawni O'Bryan | Happy Trails With Dawni O'Bryan
There is just something about a baby goat that can bring out the giggles in a child. Maybe it is the way they jump and twist in the air for no apparent reason and then just run off.

Long Time Gone and Where Caitlin Learned to Play

| Betsy Barnett | Long Time Gone
If you haven’t heard about Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes girls’ basketball team then you most definitely have not been paying attention. It’s the end of March Madness in America for 2023 and usually that means millions of fans will be watching the men’s basketball action and maybe paying token attention to who the ultimate girls’ NCAA champion will be.

As Time Goes by with Rich O'Brian: Easter Says it All

| Rich O'Brian | As Time Goes By With Rich O'Brian
There’s no question about it: Easter is a Holy Day. It is a day often filled with glorious celebrations.

Borderlines: Sketches from the Empty Quarter: Dust Storm

| GK Harkness | Borderlines: Sketches from the Empty Quarter
Kiowa County, Colorado, far out on the eastern margins of the high plains, has been my home for most of my life. A life that is now beyond the end of its seventh decade.

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Ephesians 5:8-14 (ESV)

| Administrator | Lifestyles
For at one time, you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

Borderlines: Sketches from the Empty Quarter: National Ag Day

| GK Harkness | Borderlines: Sketches from the Empty Quarter
I didn’t wake up this morning knowing this was National Ag Day.

Grace Lutheran Church Devotional: Exodus 17:1-7

| Administrator | Lifestyles
All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.

Behind the Grindstone: King of the Mountain

| Bill Bunting | Behind the Grindstone
It’s interesting to watch as our society deals with their so called social issues. It seems the more they struggle to become what they are not the more they become what they are.

Happy Trails with Dawni O'Bryan: Tipton Leather

| Dawni O'Bryan | Happy Trails With Dawni O'Bryan
Horse people love the smell of leather. It usually means there is something new to put on their horse or on them that typifies the western lifestyle.

Long Time Gone: A Brief History of the Assembly of God Church

| Rev. J. A. Stapleton | Long Time Gone
The Eads Assembly of God Church, now known as the Praise Community Church, began in the summer of 1936 with a tent revival service by Rev. T.

Borderlines: Sketches from the Empty Quarter: Passing the Torch

| GK Harkness | Borderlines: Sketches from the Empty Quarter
It’s been a long time coming. Almost fifty-two years since I picked up the reins from my Dad.

As Time Goes by with Rich O'Brian: Taking Flight

| Rich O'Brian | As Time Goes By With Rich O'Brian
I’m quite sure I’m not alone. That is, there must be others who become a little, shall we say, concerned when it comes to taking off in an airplane.

Long Time Gone: The Story of the Methodist Church of Haswell

| Priscilla Waggoner | Long Time Gone
Anniversaries are important. They may be used to sell cards or jewelry or expensive dinners, but at its untarnished core, the message communicated in celebrating an anniversary is important.

Happy Trails with Dawni O'Bryan: Training Horses and Raising Kids

| Dawni O'Bryan | Happy Trails With Dawni O'Bryan
In the rodeo world, the cowboys and cowgirls have basically two options when it comes to picking their equine partner. Option one is to dig deep into the bank account and buy a high dollar horse that will send them to the pay window.

Long Time Gone and Faith of Our Fathers

| Priscilla Waggoner, history by Joyce Berry | Long Time Gone
Professors of Sociology and other high academic areas who have made a study of those small towns that survived the early days on the High Plains and those that didn’t often make the same observation and illustrate that observation by using the same image. They typically, more or less and in one way or another, describe the towns that survived as being similar to a three-legged stool.

Believe

| Breanna Echols | Breanna Echols
Belief is such a simple thing, however simple, does not make it easy. I’ve found that faith is often something you have to fight to keep, until the things you’ve been hoping for have started to come into view.
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