Purpose: A goal or meaning in your life because there is something that you want to achieve. – MacMillan Dictionary Open up any newspaper this month and you’ll see the future. Smiling graduates from every school are pictured and the only difference between today and...
Palindrome – A word, phrase, verse or sentence that reads the same backward or forward, as: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. From the Greek palindromos, running back again. – The American Heritage Dictionary It is a spring evening, warm in Los Angeles, and the Angels...
Populist – A member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people. — Merriam Webster Dictionary A shadow of Bill Janklow showed up on television the other day in the form of a...
Treasure: A person or thing considered especially valuable or precious. – The American Heritage Dictionary The famous South Dakota artist Terry Redlin noticed a farmer looking closely at one of his paintings. It could have been normal admiration for a scene well...
Brokered Convention – A party convention in which many delegates are pledged to favorite sons who use their blocs of votes to bargain with leading candidates who lack a majority of delegate support. — Dictionary.com Just recently a friend and I were...
Country doctor: A doctor who is not a specialist, but treats all illnesses. — Vocabulary.com Stethoscope in hand, a balding middle-aged doctor looks benignly at an infant held in his mother’s arms. The child’s eyes are riveted on the doctor, and the mother is...