This past Fourth of July most of the clan was gathered, and we were playing that unnamed family game, the one that gets more interesting the o…
While there are all kinds of people in the world, they can probably be separated into two basic groups – list makers and those who don’t like lists.
Editor’s Note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2014.
A baseball game. Eleven and 12-year-olds. Roughly one third of the team bursts into tears at some point, many of them after talking to their coach.
Our children bought us an anniversary gift and we started using it a few weeks ago. It was a gift certificate for one of those home deliveries…
Yup, it happened again. A few weeks ago my wife was driving our lawn-mower tractor and pulling a cart piled high with weeds and tree branches …
I was driving between farms the other day and noticed that the wild roses were blooming, so I stopped and took a photo.
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Someone stole my credit card. Not out of my hand or purse. Out of thin air. Somehow they got the number and bought nearly $2,000 worth of what…
Readers: Please enjoy this Dr. Michael Rosmann column from 2014.
I went to the doctor last week with about four issues I wanted checked out. I like to store things up, so I don’t feel like I’m wasting anyone…
Dale Lee Hildebrant, 73, Valley City, and formerly of Rogers, died Monday, June 14 at Mercy Hospital, Valley City. A funeral service will be h…
As we get older we tend to lose more things more often. Like names, for example. A memory pops up about someone and in the sharing of the memo…
In 1771, King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died after eating a meal of caviar, lobster, sauerkraut and champagne, along with 14 helpings of dessert.
It was heavenly visiting a restaurant. Finally. It was a huge step toward getting back to some type of normalcy.
The suicide rate of the general population of the U.S. declined during both 2019 and 2020, according to preliminary analyses by the Centers fo…
Okay, May, thanks. You can stop trying so hard now. Save a little for the other months.
I just wanted to order a personalized Bible for my grandson’s confirmation gift. It has been a Lutheran tradition as far back as I can remembe…
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2014.
Saturday, the sun foretold a clear and crisp day. The temperature was barely above freezing, but the day held promise anyway. I don’t understa…
Little did I know when I signed up for Mr. Lumpkin’s course in Folk Music and Literature at the University of Colorado 55 years ago that he wo…
Just when it feels like there is nothing but bad news in the world, something good happens. The good thing can be blazingly wonderful, or it c…
We may have had a breakthrough in honoring a basic rule of the universe. On Easter Sunday, I loaded up Grandchildren One through Three to see …
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2014.
Our 50th wedding anniversary is just one year away. A milestone of that magnitude takes advance planning.
As I was preparing for a talk to an agricultural group, I read an article about Greek philosophy.
Paul W. Johnson, the former head of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and Iowa’s Department of Natural Resources after that, pas…
I forgot to diet today. I do that quite often – forget to give up the things that make my upper arms and thighs quiver. My good intentions are…