Author: Rhonda Schrock

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Feb 14, 2025

Seed of contentment, harvest of peace

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Feb. 8, 2025. “A harvest of peace is produced by a seed of contentment.” – proverb Years ago, my husband

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Feb 07, 2025

How to live while you’re alive

This essay was first published on Feb. 1, 2025, on The Daily BS. It happened on a cold January night. An American Airlines flight inbound from Wichita, Kansas, collided in

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Feb 01, 2025

In seasons of pressure, increase your PSI

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Jan. 25, 2025. Like many of our fellow Americans, this past Monday found us at home on the sofa, riveted,

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Feb 01, 2025

To all the teachers, “Thank you”

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Jan. 18, 2025. This week, I found myself back in school. Not for me, mind you, but for The Cub.

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Feb 01, 2025

What to do with disappointment

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Jan. 11, 2025. It is a simple word that affects us all. For as long as mankind has walked upon

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Jan 11, 2025

The proper use of “what if”

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Jan. 4, 2025. As a grain-fed, pigtailed girl growing up on the Plains, I devoured books. Summers on the scorching,

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Jan 03, 2025

On New Year’s Eve, resolve this–know your name

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on December 28, 2024. What a year it’s been. With a fractious election, a red tidal wave, and now, Christmas in

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Dec 27, 2024

When you can’t go home at Christmas, there’s adoption

In a long-ago time, in a faraway land, darkness descends. The lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep steal o’er the countryside. The murmur of hay beneath hooves falls

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Dec 20, 2024

Everyone has a story

It’s a cold and wintry day. The last half inch of coffee in the mug has grown cold. Here in the quiet office, I remember it as though it was

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Dec 14, 2024

How the small can climb mountains

This essay was first published on December 7, 2024, on The Daily BS. It came to me on a cold, winter day. Christmas break had come and, with it, the

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