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Pastor/Founder of the Grace Baptist Church, Lake Andes since 1988
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We planned a late season pheasant hunt, and knew that the pheasantswereeducatedandvery spooky.
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Frequently, my patients will come to a visit and bring up a major concern: “Doc, I think I might have dementia; my memory seems to be slipping.” They might give examples of having difficulty finding words, forgetting people’s names, or just feeling like their thinking is slower. Many of them know a family member who had dementia, and they are worried.
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Fishing, the practice of catching fish, dates back at least 40,000 years, originally fisherman caught fish in order to survive, Growing up in northeastern South Dakota, in Watertown, we were just one block away from the Big Sioux River and less than a mile from Lake Pelican, we didn’t have to go far to go fishing or angling.
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I’ve always had a dog, as a kid, a lab, just a plain old dog, that brought us kids a lot of enjoyment.
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Writing about grief is like writing about life—huge! Where does one start? It is like describing love: basically impossible. The comedian and late-night host Stephen Colbert lost his father and two older brothers in a tragic accident when he was young, and said, about grief, “It is a gift to exist, and with that gift comes suffering. If I am grateful for life, I must be grateful for all of it. I hope that grief stays with me because it is all the unexpressed love I didn’t get to tell you.”
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The art of hard water fishing has come a long way, since my brother AJ and got into the sport, back then, you had to be one tough hombre to as the equipment we used was prehistoric compared to what we have today.
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Atmanyof mypresentations and seminars, I’m surprised by the number of people who don’t likethe“Wildtaste”of wildgame Aftermakingthatstatement, Iaskthem,“whatdoeswildtaste like,” many times, they’ll come back indicting the fishy taste in certain fish, or the wild game taste in venison.
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