On March 20th, if you are happily married, you should celebrate the Vernal Equinox, which is not only a full moon this year, but also a Super moon. Why should married people celebrate the Vernal Equinox? The oldest spring rite we have on record--actually written down by human beings around 2355 BCE (4374 years ago)--has become known as the Sacred Marriage Rite, wherein the king had sacred sex with Sumerian goddess Inanna through the person of her high priestess. This rite is the first

I wrote this letter to editor and sent it to the Leavenworth Times last week, but they have not yet published it. Perhaps its too controversial for them? Or maybe it hits too close to home? Dear Editor, Are conservative American women sexually frustrated? I ask because of a recent conversation with a group of women, all of whom classify themselves as conservatives. When questioned about why they believe what they believe, a few could only repeat Republican rhetoric. None had a real opinion

Numerous massacres of whole villages and sometimes islands (such as the St. Brice’s Day Massacre in England where all people of Viking descent were rounded up and slaughtered in Oxford, England)—usually pagans, who were often forced to convert to Christianity and then killed Christians targeted and demolished pagan temples and killed the priests and worshippers as soon as Christianity had legal sanction in 315 ACE by Constantine. Christians destroyed the great library at Alexandria, Egypt

The Challenge As my husband and I journeyed through South Dakota in June 2016, we learned that our school taught French was very different from the French used in South Dakota. Flandreau, for instance, is not pronounced fland-row, but flan-drew. And Pierre is not pronounced pee-air, but pier. A woman from Switzerland who was visiting the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, South Dakota the same day we were tried to explain why the pronunciations are so different than what we would expect.