Use your iPad or iPod to learn more about birding
Want to know what bird's singing beside you in the park? Yep, there's an app for that.
With Attitude, Timing Is Everything
Why do teens who refuse to eat breakfast, pop up energetically when there's morning fast food involved, ponders Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb.
Pollinators wildly interesting this time of year
A few days ago my eyes began to itch. Grass and tree pollen trigger allergies that will continue until the first frost. But pollen...
Growing old
We are all in the process of growing old, whether we like it or not. I have heard it said, “You are only young...
Judith Sutherland: Young man persists, despite hardships
Sometimes the most impressive lives bear unspeakable sorrow but the story is told with a glow of perseverance, or simply never told at all.
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Dirty laundry is out in the open now
With the summer’s big holiday just ahead and the midpoint of the year just behind, it’s time to empty the office bucket of spleen,...
Passenger pigeons are gone, for better and for worse
Passenger pigeons are an example why we should never underestimate extinction.
Apology and the fine art of making one
I don't, as a rule, look to celebrities to serve as role models for my children. I'm not generally on the lookout for anyone...
Groundhog Day again and again
Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror, Christmas in the windshield and, given the glacial pace of key policy decisions awaiting resolution in Washington, D.C., it’s just another Groundhog Day out here in rural America.
Embracing my inner grouch
You hear all the time about embracing your inner child, but what if what you have is less an inner 8-year-old and more an...
