Karen Little Thunder and her cousin Phil Little Thunder greet attendees of a memorial ceremony in Ash Hollow State Historical Park Sept. 6, 2025. Photo courtesy Jessica Wade, Nebraska Public Media 170 Years Ago, The US Army Massacred A Lakota Village. Their Plundered...

Photo©ViktorRomaniuk/123rf Too many people operate on autopilot, bored with their lives and feeling restless. Have you become caught in a story that is no longer serving you, in patterns that make you yearn to become more enlivened? You might need to get in touch with...

Photo©Natalya Erofeeva/123rf One morning, I was walking in a friend’s yard in Idaho and saw a monarch butterfly. I stopped to watch him flutter above a purple coneflower — one of his favorite sources of nectar — and admired his striking orange and black pattern for at...

Photo©Kasper Ravlo/123rf Some days slip away like water through our hands. We wake up, take care of the urgent tasks, follow routines, and by nightfall it feels as if we haven’t truly been present. Yet even in those days, there is always something worth noticing: a...

Photo©liudmilachernetska/123rf Benadryl has been a household name for decades, often treated as harmless relief for allergies, coughs, colds, or a restless night. Yet, its story is far more complicated. Introduced in the 1940s, it was the first antihistamine of its...

Photo courtesy Emily Ruff “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical, and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” — Earl A. Grollman Over many years in my work, I’ve witnessed...

Photo©Yan Zabolotnyi/123rf There appears to be a background belief among those who are grappling for power now that there once existed a dominant “pure” white world, which they are trying to reclaim. One “superior” race, religion, monetary/political system, gender:...

Photo courtesy YouTube screenshot In A Major Milestone, Hamas Releases Final Group Of Living Israeli Hostages by Greg Myre and Daniel Estrin, NPR Hamas on Monday released the last 20 living hostages from Gaza as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. In...

Artwork©HerasymchukVolodymyr/123rfThis past weekend, my wife and I took our weekly 2-mile hike through Portland’s Forest Park, climbing the equivalent of 30-40 stories up trails that follow the urban hills of the Tualatin Mountain range. My heartbeat, which usually...

Photo©corporatesounds/123rf When it comes to health, the questions we are willing to ask, matter. A lot. Unfortunately, this is not what we are taught, nor is it what we are offered when it comes to how we care for ourselves; specifically, how it is we navigate times...