Enjoy the memories of Christmas past
"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there." As the years have rolled...
‘Pippi’ makes everything less scary
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a...
Wisdom of E.B. White is timeless
Judith Sutherland recalls all she learned from studying the life of E.B. White, the kindly man who gave us Charlotte's Web.
Touching lives one reader at a time
Years ago, I received a card in the mail from a Farm and Dairy reader, wishing my daughter well. This gentleman had read my column, and said it touched his heart in a way that he could not quite explain.
Virginia Myers Patterson will be missed
For those of you who have read this column for a number of years, stories of my great-grandpa Charlie are familiar fodder. It is...
The days go by: Children’s teen-age birthdays hit mom like ton of bricks
Columnist Judith Sutherland faces the reality that her children, Cort and Caroline, are growing up.
Addiction to oil is a slippery slope
I found out something this past week that sort of has me stumped. I am addicted to oil. Now, I am trying to figure out how this happened.
Saying farewell to one of the ‘family’
By JUDITH SUTHERLAND Farm and Dairy columnist In 1950, my dad graduated from high school and welcomed a young man who had just...
A lesson about the love of raising sheep
When I was a toddler, my maternal grandfather decided his four little granddaughters needed the experience of bottle feeding a lamb.
We have so much for which to be grateful
"Dad hitched up the horses and told me the farm was my responsibility now. He was going in search of work, for a week,...
