Life through my eyes
[This was originally posted on February 10, 2014.] If you grew up on the west side of Rapid City, chances are you went sledding at Chalk Rock Hill. Chalk Rock Hill borders Meadowbrook Elementary School grounds on the east, at the corner of Arrowhead Drive and West Flormann Street. Most of the year the … Read more…
[This was originally posted on April 9, 2014.] On April 4, 2014, Stuart Opp died in London after a battle with stomach cancer. He was only 46 years old, a member of my high school graduating class of 1986. Last night I flipped through the Sabre for my junior and senior years at Stevens High School in Rapid … Read more…
For most of us growing up in the Dakotas, we’re only a few generations removed from those who tamed the virgin prairies with plows or fed the nations’ city dwellers with beef, wheat, corn, and pork. Our grandparents, great and great-great grandparents were farmers and ranchers or they were small town merchants who brought plumbing … Read more…