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SPM's Sheila Brummer talks to Erin Edlund of Morningside University who is a RAGBRAI volunteer

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe one of his "personal heroes"

Burnout is subtle. It happens slowly, and we often don't realize it has happened to us until after the flame goes out. But it is in this moment when we can realize our needs and begin to understand how we can pursue them.

Complacency is the time when we stop challenging ourselves. It is when we have been in a state of homeostasis for too long and are teetering on the brink of decline in growth.

Resilience is a learned ability. It is learning to adapt and grow. It is observing where we are and looking for the next step.

SPM's Sheila Brummer talks to the head of one of Siouxland's top employers on his one-year anniversary on the job.

Not unlike Spirit Mound really, save in size. Drive a couple miles north from Vermillion, and there it is, growing as if out of nowhere, towering above an endless stretches of crop land in all directions, a sweetly climbable hump of earth, a grassy bee-hive with no reason whatsoever to be there--there stands Spirit Mound as if the entire seventh grade decided to build a massive model volcano.

Born in 1895, he was the child of a mixed marriage. His father's people were immigrant Dutch, his mother's immigrant German. He spent his boyhood in Hospers, a village on the seam. When he served, he did so in a fashion that suitably represented all, I'm sure. For forty years he held elective office, in D. C., from 1942-1965. Eleven times he was voted back into the House . Eleven times. Just about made him an institution. Some called him "Mr. Republican."