Balance

I always love this issue of Siouxland Magazine that highlights ten young people who are dynamically impacting our community. Communities, like bread, become stale from just sitting there. It is new ideas, energy, and passion that keep our community vibrant and ever fresh. People by nature are fearful of change and tend to resort to […]

We asked the kids, “What questions do you think are important for adults to ask teens?” Here are their responses. Keturah, age 14  Are you okay? What do you need to be successful? Steven, age 16  Why do you do the things you do?  What can I do to help you?  Do you have someone

Question: “In watching everything happening in our world, the never-ending violence and divisiveness, it feels like it won’t stop.  I am feeling overwhelmed.  What can I do?” Dear Reader,  We are going through an intense portal of change.  How overwhelming it can be to see the deep shadow of our country emerge.  As painful as

Question: “My tween spends most of her time on her smartphone and has no interest in hanging out with her family. Even when she is sitting with us, she is constantly scrolling through her phone and doesn’t engage. When we take away her phone so that she can have supper with us, she cannot sit

Feet. We stand our ground in them. We travel with them, anywhere from home to the sea, and eventually Mars. We wiggle baby toes, massage our tired “dogs,” have strange obsessions, and they are the foundation of our vertically aligned body. Some alternative medicine practices tell us that our feet have connections to our internal

Today, a journey begins.  It’s been happening for years, but like many things, I’ve been too afraid to share. Now I know this cannot wait. And now, I accept that I can’t wait for it to come out perfect.  Today, I took a long look down a winding path. And when I fix my gaze,