A birthday: Memories stick with you
Isn't it odd how certain moments in time stay with us, remaining vibrant in our memories? I have one such memory, and while I can't explain why it stands out while others that were certainly more important have faded away, it is as clear as though it happened yesterday.
Spouses don’t always get along so swimmingly
I have long enjoyed reading the anniversary notices in the county paper. It is these little nuggets of society news that tell us that Lula and Orville have enjoyed 75 years of wedded bliss (having wed, apparently, at or around age nine).
National Poetry Month – April
How to Eat a Poem Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
Farm business help at your fingertips
Spring is in the air! Isn't springtime in northeast Ohio a wonderful time? Gone (hopefully) are the howling winter winds and we all are crossing our fingers for a warm, dry spring.
Spring welcomed at the Gueberts’
The signs and sounds of another Illinois spring are everywhere and each one sends me daydreaming to another time, another place.
Blessed, but sometimes life ain’t fair
When I was a very young kid, I went to the Loudonville Free Street Fair with some of my friends. At home that night, I said to my father, "I saw your uncle at the fair!" Real cowboy.
Losing this battle will be expensive
"It's time to get political." That's a headline message on the Web site of The Humane Society of the United States.
Criminal activity but no criminals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.
Author longs for life’s answers
John Steinbeck, the great American author of The Grapes of Wrath and several other books of great worth, decided late in his life he wanted to write a different sort of book.
Ready for the manure chronicles?
The caller identified himself as a reporter with the Canton Repository. He was doing a story on two dairy farms that are taking part in a pilot program for onfarm manure treatment, kind of like a municipal sewage treatment plant.
