In today's episode, I interview Judy RIdenhower, 80, about her rural North Dakota upbringing with five siblings and life without electricity or running water. Judy recalls school in Sentinel Butte (graduating in 1963), small-town sports and band, family card games, chores, simple Christmases and birthdays, and hardships - including her brother's polio recovery and the theft of the family’s stored winter food. She shares about working at age 10, graduating from Dickinson State University in elementary education, and a 40-year teaching career in Dickinson, New Town, Poplar, and Beach - including 25 years in Title I. Judy also reflects on the changes she observed in parenting and discipline over the years. She talks about her faith, community service (church music, museum, library, cemetery, nursing home), extensive travel (visiting 48 states and trips abroad), her father’s death in 1973, her mother’s remarriages, and her own breast cancer journey.