Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the pairie
Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the pairie
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by Jan Ophus Mary Kay Kountz started writing "BROCKWAY BRIEFS" in 1991. She writes about forty of these entertaining, interesting, gossipy columns each year. They're typically around 1,000 words long. So, over the course of thirty-three years she's submitted some 1,320 columns to the Circle Banner. That's 1,320,000 words! It's high time we Banner loyalists got to know this prairie chronicler a little better. JO: Tell us about yourself, Mary Kay. Your parents and siblings, your own family. MKK:...
by Jan Ophus THE WARY WESTERNER'S NOSE FOR B.S.* When feedlot management becomes a concern, Westerners can turn to institutions such as Michigan State University Extension for reliable information about, for example, manure: "backgrounding and finishing cattle have been reported to excrete 6.3 lb. of manure per 100 lb. body weight, 0.22 to 0.48 lb. of N [Nitrogen] and 0.035 to 0.085 lb. of P [Phosphorous] per head per day." But now that the field for the race to the 2024 Presidency appears to...
"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory." (Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize Poet) I hadn't watched a National Basketball Association game on TV beginning to end for years and then a few years ago I stopped watching altogether. But just the other day while channel surfing on my way to an old SEINFELD episode or maybe it was the Munich tennis tourney on Golf Channel, I saw the Celtics playing somebody. Which—as everything seems to in these elderly days of mine—reminded me of somethings: how important basketball was to me gro...
“The end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.” (From T.S. Eliot's poem Little Gidding.) Last year, having missed a normal early January deadline, I got a MEANDERINGS New Year's resolution column in to the BANNER in time for the beginning of the Chinese New Year. I see that this year I'm already well past even that (culturally appropriated) date—January 23rd. Decembers and Januarys are just too full of birthdays, Christmases, anniversaries, yet more birthdays, not to mention, incre...
