The Children's Trust Fund is hosting a Go Blue Wellness Walk in downtown Jefferson City on Wednesday, April 24.The walk will run from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and
"Starling House," a Southern gothic fantasy by Alix E. Harrow, features 26-year-old Opal. She s a high school dropout scrabbling for every penny she can earn, con or steal in order to get her half-brother, sixteen-year-old Jasper, out of dead-end Eden, Kentucky.
A few weeks ago, my church s pastor asked if we knew when we were going to die, how that would affect how we lived. She went on to give some poignant examples for her congregation to contemplate. This is an often explored topic of faith communities, and also by many who regularly think about their own mortality.
The Wyoming prairie, shadowed by the Bighorn Mountain range. The year is 1876. The Beemis and Webber families have lived on neighboring farms for years, 20 miles from town, and as a matter of survival they have relied on each other for aid and assistance. That is, until tragedy tears the two families apart.