For those of you who were following my "amazing" progress in the 23 Things Kansas program - I flunked.  It worked well for the fir...

Our baby will be graduating from high school in seventeen days.  We dug through boxes and albums to collect pictures from infancy through ...

Our daughter was asked to write a literary review of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote as part of her college-level composition class.  Over t...

A while back I wrote a post   about re-reading favorite books from years past - in particular the Prairie Winds Series by Stephanie Grace W...

The ultimate organizing resource for book-lovers. This is a fun resource for list-oriented types and the memory challenged.  Six sections -...

Last Tuesday we traveled to Hays, Kansas, where our son goes to college, to see Jesus Christ Superstar on stage.  This was the national tour...

Small farming communities are the heart and soul of America, but it's no secret that they're under siege.  Schools close, jobs vani...