The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

A family member completed her PhD requirements this week, successfully defending five years of reading, research and data gathering while suffering the occasional indignities that accompany any...

Why is it that we are so surprised when inspiration and goodwill collide to produce something good? There are numbers of individuals across our community that are doing amazing work in support of...

Overwhelming is only one of many descriptors assigned to the world today. News images and stories are at times both horrific and disappointing. We face the stark fact that in successive generation...

Labels infuse our culture, transforming us in ways we do not fully understand. Commercial labels are the easiest to process and dismiss. We see them as identifiers, product enhancers, and information...

When is a palm a palm? Is it a palm if it is only a few feet tall or do we need to see it in our mind as towering high above? Does it matter if its trunk is rough or smooth? How about the fronds?...

There are but a handful of Supreme Court opinions that constitute fixed stars of understanding. Perhaps the most well-known is by Justice Robert H. Jackson. “If there is any fixed star in our constitu...

Most of us would agree that how we gauge priorities can be difficult and challenging. It is an easier task when they are closely aligned, but that is seldom the hand we are dealt. Despite our best...

In our household, going shopping has a different connotation than what many consumers embrace. The goal is much the same however. Find something which strikes your fancy, or an item that a household...

Time flies when you’re having fun, or at least when you’re a National Weather Service reporting station. For over two decades, the daily routine has included recording highs and lows from the pre...

Chicken behavior has long been studied for its contribution to, and partial explanation of, models of human sociology. Aside from establishing pecking order and other flock behaviors, chickens in...

Fall was a popular time growing up in a small rural community. The maples and oaks, though never quite as majestic as their eastern states counterparts, nevertheless provided a wealth of color and...

When the snow flies at the first of the year, it is often greeted by nearly completed puzzles, leftovers from recent New Years activities. This year was no different. The first pieces of a...

The big picture is becoming more difficult to discern as social media, hyperbole and AI take center stage to an alarming degree. The picture is here, mind you, just a little hazy on the edges. In an a...

The creek north of the old place was still, silent and unmoving. Ice ledges intruded from the banks, enabled by low temperatures and periodic early winter snows. Steeply carved banks of overgrown brus...

The “duck pond” is how we affectionately refer to the shallow hole in the driveway where we park. It is reliable in the role of rain gauge of sorts in that it takes at least a half inch of rain bef...

To believe advertisers that one simply cannot manage Christmas without embracing the hottest fashion trends, material goods, hardware and the software to make it all work, is ludicrous. From a...

Change is possible. There is evidence that supports the notion that beneficial change is not only the norm, it is the default. To the surprise of many, there is evidence of walls of despair crumbling...

SpaceX achieved another space milestone this week launching its second 400-foot rocket spaceward with the goal of ferrying passengers to the moon and beyond by 2024. Just 10 minutes into the flight,...

Violence levied against innocents worldwide has raised achingly difficult questions on how to respond. The sense of hopelessness and despair is dark and deep for many. The specter of change for the...

My first (knowing) foray into the world of AI (Artificial Intelligence) occurred not within a devoted app but in an online auction environment. It centered around listing an item for sale and...

Are humans’ best friends (dogs in particular) just what the doctor ordered? After being gone for a few days and sharing a reunion car ride with our dog, she peeked over the back seat with one of t...

Like clockwork, color has once more intervened on our everyday senses in warm and reassuring ways. As in past years, a cry has gone up declaring this year’s foliage the best in many seasons, but we a...

Immutable, unchanging, incapable of being changed. It is what we were taught when asked to describe characteristics of God. Other attributes in some way flowed easier — omniscient, invisible, immortal...

Nestled among the “whences” and ‘comeths’ of Psalm 121 (KJV) lies a calmness and certainty that draws us when times are difficult and trying. The archaic lingual forms embedded in scripture bring a...

Time is a constant in our lives, though it can feel malleable depending on our awareness of its presence. Getting older appears to be a time accelerant. Recent months and years bring urgency to where...