Everybody's Bookstore, Rapid City, SD Four years ago, Jessie Polenz did not want to own a bookstore. “I always just wanted to work for somebody and get my paycheck and go,” Polenz said. So working...

Every August, the town of Sturgis, South Dakota, fills with the sound of loud engines and crowds of leather jackets. While the Sturgis Rally embodies much of the atmosphere surrounding it, there is a new...

One of the most underrated spots in Nebraska is a coffee shop in south-central Lincoln called Rose Cat Coffee Company and Reading Society. This little shop has something that can't be found anywhere else.  “I...

2025 General Excellence | Ponder Issue Three | Ponder Staff | AEJMC National Student Magazine Competition Profile Story 2nd Place | 'Till The Wheels Fall Off | Nathan Feller | AEJMC National Student...

Music is a language, a language that connects us all. Songs bring us closer together, inspire us and open the doors of self-reflection, allowing anybody to connect to a wide range of emotions and feel...

Seconds turn into minutes, minutes into hours, hours to days. All time put toward shedding a few seconds off the clock. Among the absurd heat and humidity of late July or the crushing winters in Sioux...

Born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, Marty Two Bulls Jr. was destined to become an artist. “I come from a big family of artists,” Two Bulls Jr. said. “From my grandparents’ generation...

Since Earth’s beginning, fire has been one of the greatest forces of nature. Like an artist’s mangled gum eraser, fire removes what is old and leaves a clean canvas for new life to leave its mark....

In the thick silence of a Michigan forest on a sweltering September afternoon, a crack pierces the air, echoing off the trees, forcing a flock of birds to flee. Ezra Aderhold, a professional disc golfer...

“Blood, sweat and tears,” is a phrase that has been immortalized throughout time, made famous by figures such as Winston Churchill, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Johne Donne. It is a phrase used to describe...