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Old Farm Guys on Tractors
Most Sundays, reading the opinion pages of the paper is the quickest, dirtiest way to rain on my personal feel-good parade. Public debates have never interested me. Heated, public debates make me want to curl up in a corner and disappear. Political debates seem to be...
Healthy Vegetarian Chili
A year or two ago, I ran across a chili recipe in American Profile Magazine. Having been raised by a former cattle farmer whose motto was no meal is complete without meat, I viewed this no meat version with skepticism. But finally, my daughter and I tried it when she...
Mickey & Minnie Are Back
They’re ba-ack! Little Mickey and Minnie, fresh out of food in the fields and shivering in their boots once the temperature dipped below freezing, invaded the garage last week. As per their fall routine, the Goldilocks imitators left Hiram’s truck alone. Too hard....
This Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words
From what Mom’s told us about her childhood, she was never a costume kind of girl. My memories of her don’t run towards a let-your-hair-down sort of woman. And her former elementary students would most likely agree...especially since her nickname was Iron Woman of the...
Doe, a Deer, a Female Deer
It happened again - another Marlin Perkins wildlife moment - near the same place as before on the walking trail. This time six deer, almost within touching distance, moseyed across the path near the little stream that runs through the cemetery and the woods. So there...
Alice’s Tulips
Sandra Dallas, author of Alice’s Tulips, is becoming one of my favorite authors for a variety of reasons. First, her books well-researched on two levels, relating both the familiar history of the times and the lesser known history of women’s life within those times....