I can’t tell you exactly when I started to notice how our summers have changed, but it was likely while fishing a bunch in that summer of 2021, while wrapping up the trend of social distancing, which looking back here in the more crotchety years of late middle age, was pretty nice. Since that ...

Have you noticed how often things really look nice? Did you take time to fully appreciate whatever it was that caught your attention? Many of us were very fortunate to grow up enveloped in the arms of a loving family. Unfortunately, not everyone has been so lucky, and those scars of the past ...

There was a time when you came into existence, and there is a time when you will exist no more. Like the saying goes, no one gets out of this life alive. Unfortunately, that includes the people we like and love. Encounters with death are inescapable. The longer we live, the fewer people with ...

An inherited individual retirement account (IRA) is a potential financial windfall that may create new opportunities to achieve your financial goals. If you are a beneficiary currently or expect to be one in the future, you should know recent legal changes on inherited IRAs can result in costly ...

For the first time in almost 20 years, I found out what it’s like to again be a graduate. I completed two months of physical therapy at Avera Therapy after my hip surgery. The fact that it coincided with high school and college events made me think of how any graduation is a special ...

The following article appeared in The News-Messenger of Lyon County on March 5, 1909: “Mr. Haas has completed the purchase of three lots on Main street at the corner of Fourth, and will immediately begin the erection of the new building for the Marshall Creamery company, which will be the ...