The chill in the air and the lightly falling snow outside my window is a wonderful backdrop to the wonder of the blessed holiday.
There is no other time of year that is quite so wondrous, so magical, so worthy of our wonder.
Christmas is the most important birthday celebration of all time. No matter […]
A radio report caught my ear the other day and set me to thinking. A medical study conducted somewhere in Holland concluded that people who are surrounded by even a small patch of forest, lawns or parks are consistently healthier than those who have no green space surrounding their living environments.
Well, I have a strong […]
“I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. When the war ended, the United States had $26 billion worth of factories that hadn’t existed before the war, $140 billion in savings and war bonds just […]
Some events in life are so incredible that they are emblazoned on the memory like a wonderful keepsake, no souvenirs required. We just recently celebrated such a milestone moment.
We were invited to attend a surprise party in honor of Sean Casey’s major league baseball career, as he is stepping down from life as a player […]
“For the simple things, I am grateful. We complicate our lives to the point of total distraction from that which is most sacred, and that distraction keeps us from experiencing deep gratitude.”
– Helen Hooven Santmyer
When life gets a little too complicated, I like nothing more than to hang out with my dogs.
Channing
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“The bright sun filtered through the clouds, warming the fields of alfalfa that my father was mowing. Within a day or two it would be put into bales of hay, gathered from the field, stored in the hay loft and used to feed our livestock. I stood at the fence line with the lunch my […]
Every Veterans Day should be a massive event, a day of total reverence and celebration for those who have given so much for so many.
One of my very first columns written for Farm and Dairy centered around the topic of my excited impatience as I awaited the birth of my second baby. That baby girl just turned 21 a couple of days ago.
I have come to realize that parenting is very much like living through the seasons. As […]
“We worked in the woods for nearly 10 hours today, falling trees, sawing lumber. I could have worked 10 more. There is something invigorating about work in the deep forest, the type of work of which I never tire.”
– Alexander Smalley diary entry, 1880
Autumn is the perfect time for reflection, for a walk […]
“There is a little man in that child who has already stood his ground with the stubborn calves in the barn and the pigs in the feed lot, but there is also the heart of a saint, for he has learned to be patient and kind to those that others consider dumb animals.”
– Sedonia […]
