Two feet of snow in 24 hours this past weekend called forth Shakespearean emotions--wonder, anger, despair, altruism, selfishness…and lower-back pain.
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Remember Neel Kashkari? Here’s a hint: $700 billion. Here’s another: TARP. Kashkari was the bald guy who handed out $400 billion...
The guns of November always herald Thanksgiving. We are in the middle of rifle season for deer. Muzzle-loading season is behind; other seasons are...
I was desperately seeking a column idea before dawn on Tuesday morning when fortune smiled: My back wheel fell off.
Two weeks ago I took my 5 year old son with me to put up some signs advertising some of my listings. While we were out another realtor called and...
The best show this side of the Northern Lights started this week in our back pasture on the north-facing bank of Key Run, a bratty little stream that...
Labor Day on the farm is a work day. I read the Sunday papers a day late. (I call this work, because it’s arguably associated with writing a column.)...
What if I said to you that much of what we you eat every day amounts to an addictive drug that has captured our brains, rewired us into addicts...
Health and health care are matters of concern in the American countryside as well as everywhere else. The research shows that we who live in rural...
Almost hourly, I receive emails from Hong Kong, Nigeria or Quicksandistan that bring welcome news. I’ve won lotteries. Relatives of the email writers...