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The challenge for graduates

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...

Backward, forward, it’s all the same

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...

Janklow, Trump share some traits

     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...

South Dakota loses a treasure

     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...

Need to win can bring out the worst

       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...

Thank goodness for country doctors

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...