Combining soy beans off Bloods Point Road. It’s been a long harvest this year, with crops around here not dry enough to pull out of the field when we had…
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1. I miss the pet rooster in the barn at night. I’d walk in there and he’d be roosting on the wrong hay bale. I mean a bale I was…
The seething anger between Americans frightens me. Pundits are saying we are as polarized as Americans before the Civil War. What would happen if we did something more radical than…
A couple weeks ago, the farm came alive with men at work. It’s not every week we have two different crews working our land at once. Beaux our hay guy,…
I wake up listening for the rejected rooster. We leave the barn doors open at night because it’s been hot and I want ventilation for the horses. He likes to…
My machete slices through the weeds, the stems bleeding milk, a plant toxic to my horses. When I shopped for one, blades three times as large as a kitchen knife,…
A Light so Lovely is a beautifully written book by Sarah Arthur that brings back good memories of how Madeleine L’Engle influenced my life. Madeleine L’Engle came to Wheaton college…
Every year the first week in August brings us the Boone County Fair where we remember and see people we haven’t seen in a year. Bruce’s mom used to call…
Windmill in the south part of DeKalb County Windmills in the south part of DeKalb county. Aren’t wind turbines graceful like gymnasts doing cartwheels? Don’t they make environmental sense, better…
This week Patricia Durgin of Marketers on a Mission interviewed me with regards to my writing work. She titled it: Even Former Publicists Can Find Marketing a Challenge. She is…