Cherie Woodcock: Animal Grandma
by Paula Redmann | Photos by Tom Redmann Every now and then, Cherie Woodcock has a bad day, which can happen when you give out parking tickets for a living. She says she gets yelled at. A lot. Cherie has a remedy for bad days. She leaves her job in Bismarck and...
Always Your Farm Girl
By Marci Narum “You can take the girl off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of the girl.” I grew up on a farm 16 miles away from town where my friends lived. In the summer months, I envied their carefree existence: days spent at the pool or the lake. Granted,...Trending: Thinking Outside the Mother’s Day Gifting Box
Article and Photos by Michelle Farnsworth Ya wanna know what’s trending? To avoid the trend! Buck the system, and literally color outside the lines. Let me tell you a little story: in the early days of my marriage and motherhood, my husband, honey-pie, sweetie...
What I Should Have Asked Mother
by Betty Mills | Submitted Photo My mother was orphaned at the age of 12 when both of her parents died within two months of each other of tuberculosis—the killer disease of two generations ago. She didn’t talk about it much, but I remember her description of her...