Prairie Tayles
Saturday morning, 7:30 central during Weekend Edition
A sixth generation Kansan, Karen Madorin cherishes the prairie in a way only one who has left a beloved homeland and returned can. A writer, amateur photographer, and teacher, Karen loves finding fossils from the ancient inland seas as well as learning about modern pioneers who harvest Kansas wind. Each week Prairie Tayles takes you inside everyday life. It is a celebration of living the good life on the high plains.
Karen also writes a blog by the same name, Prairie Tayles.
Latest Episodes
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Warm weather always reminds me that country kids know how to have fun. An eight-year old from the Denver area made me think about this when he entertained…
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Something’s been eating my strawberries. Yes, the luscious berries that we planted two springs ago and carefully nurtured so we’d have fresh fruit over…
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Kids love to find words that get under the skin of siblings or enemies. This term gains power due scatological or other socially inappropriate…
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Combine past information with storytelling and you get history, which both entertains and offers examples of actions that improve lives. Kansas has…
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Youngsters nowadays have tough choices when it comes to playing. For those of us who are living our second half of a century, the p word meant wandering…
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A childhood friend recently posted the title of this column on her Facebook page as a meme. It made me smile as I thought about the latest St. Patrick’s…
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Due to medical appointments and grandkid visits, I’ve spent several days driving across central and western Kansas the last few weeks. During that travel…
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Last week I wrote about my gardening efforts to encourage black swallowtail butterflies to lay eggs. My hopes were that these would become caterpillar…
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Kevin Costner’s character Ray in the movie Field of Dreams listened to a mysterious voice telling him, “If you build it, they will come.” Against others’…
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Miners may have headed to the mountains hoping to discover gold nuggets and tiny gilt grains in streams and veins of rock. Unlike those adventuresome…