Friday, April 19, 2024
clothespin

Judith Sutherland's mother recalls the complicated process of doing laundry before electric appliances simplified the chore.
eggs

Raising chickens and gathering eggs is not an easy task. At any price point, Judith Sutherland is grateful to be able to buy eggs.
English Shepherd, Billy

Judith Sutherland recalls all the great dogs she got to love growing up on a farm.
notebook and pen

Awake each morning with gratitude for all possibilities, and take a moment to let your heart be happy for it.
apple on a desk

Judith Sutherland recalls the year she made a friend who had many freedoms, the envy she felt and her eventual appreciation for her parents and their rules.
Santa

The magic of Christmas is a gift for the child in all of us. Judith Sutherland recalls a Christmas when she discovered one of Santa's secrets.
rotary telephone

Looking through the ads in a Jeromesville Senior High School yearbook dated 1950, Judith Sutherland recalls a version of her town in the past.
farm sunset

Things always change. And that is one truth we each carry with us, no matter our station in this life," Judith Sutherland writes in her column this week.
snowy farmland

Judith Sutherland believes, more than ever, "live and let live" has become a necessary mantra.
beets

Being grounded to the earth, whether through the planting of a small garden or hundreds of acres of crops, is often seated in where we were born.