Julia DeCook
Columnist thanks readers for support
This semester is ending with a bang — or at least a few knocked over trees. With the storms this weekend comes the light at the end of the tunnel — for many of my friends, that means a graduation, or in my case and many others, preparations for graduation. I would like to [...]
Commitment finds lover in limbo
One of my strangest and most irrational fears growing up was to be that woman who would receive an engagement ring, but never a marriage. You know the story: boy meets girl, boy asks girl to marry him, 20 odd years pass … still no marriage. I see it on TV and in real [...]
Columnist says make empathy priority in 2012
The emotion of empathy seems to be on a downward spiral. The other night at Wal-Mart I noticed an old man who could barely walk, pushing a cart by himself. Many people just walked by him without even offering to help. It was windy, cold and awful outside,yet nobody had the decency to help this [...]
Communication puzzling, changing
People are strange creatures who I have a hard time comprehending. Despite that fact, I’m incredibly outgoing and extroverted yet absolutely terrified of people at the same time. If I could choose to, I wouldn’t speak to them. I don’t like talking to people and yet I hate being alone. I am a socially-awkward personality’s [...]
From Soko to Sodak
If Journey could re-write “Don’t Stop Believing,” I’d like to request they do it about me. Just a Korean/White girl, living in a lonely apartment, she took the midnight plane going NOWHERE. That nowhere to me was South Dakota. People always ask me why I chose a barren wasteland (my dad didn’t even know where [...]
Sell me your furniture. And body odor is gross.
Are some people not aware of their own B.O.? I’ll be sitting in a public space, minding my own business when the unmistakable scent of body odor starts lingering around me. Of course my first instinct is to smell myself as surreptitiously as possible, and then I will completely drop to look around the room [...]
Native American speaker highlights tribal challenges
Reporter “Han mitakuyepi cante wasteya nap ciyusupiya.” These were the opening words of educator, visual artist and poet Gabrielle Wynde Tateyuskanskan, who was the opening speaker at the American Indian History and Culture Conference in the Volstorf Ballroom April 4. Her greeting meant, “With a good heart, I shake your hand.” Tateyuskanskan spoke of the [...]
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