Rhonda’s Blog

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on Feb. 15, 2025. This week, my stalwart, blue-eyed husband had a birthday. There is a real sense in which I

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

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

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,

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.

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

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,

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

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

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