Editorial
Cloud Lessons
Posted on May 3, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL One summer in the sixties my mom returned from a trip to Vancouver with three new vinyls: the soundtrack to 'The Graduate'… Read More »
Only Connect
Posted on May 3, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL How’s that book coming along? Finished that book of yers yet? When the hell did you start that thing? I know of… Read More »
Prophet Motive
Posted on April 23, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL The 1960s are referred to in many ways: 1967 was “The summer of Love” that preceded 1968 as “The Year That Shook… Read More »
Lost & Found & Lost
Posted on April 19, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL I'm sitting in a coffee shop in the town where I graduated from high school forty-two years ago. My dad just turned… Read More »
Take my breath away
Posted on April 9, 2018BY KATE WINQUIST kwinquist@maplecreeknews.com I had been feeling under-the-weather for most of last week. I developed a cough that was progressively getting worse as the… Read More »
Always Leave Room for Grace
Posted on April 4, 2018BY MADONNA HAMEL A few years ago I rode out to Mankota with a car load of fellow parishioners to attend a parish meeting concerning… Read More »
When it’s like this outside
Posted on April 3, 2018By Madonna Hamel The wind blew all night with such ferocity that I feared one of the old cottonwoods that hovers over my home would… Read More »