Brother, can you spare a dime?
One of the oldest truisms in agriculture noted that "when farmers make money, everybody in town makes money.
Houses have their own stories to tell
A house may sometimes be more than just a home, but a tangible part of history. The house in which
Don’t just sit around this winter
When I opened the computer file that holds the farm calendar of events we print each week, I glanced at the little numbers that tell me how long the file is in column-inch terms.
You really need to do a balance sheet
Yes, it is time to take inventories and prepare balance sheets.
It can be a small world, after all
Entrepreneur and author Seth Godin calls himself "an agent of change." His books on marketing are as thought-provoking as their titles are entertaining: Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? is his most recent effort.
Worry doesn’t get a holiday
I knew all those years of selfishly tossing aside those urban legend chain letter e-mails that warned of dire consequences if I did not forward said chain letter to dozens of my friends posthaste would come to haunt me.
Happy New Year! Thoughts for the New Year
The sunrise lit up the bare winter branches along Route 11 for a beautiful view I would have missed had I gone home the night before and had I not been ill on New Year's Day.
Happy cotton pickin’ New Year
While other prophets and forecasters fill the first week of January - and endless inches of newspaper space - with predictions of what will happen this year, permit me 600 or so words to predict what won't happen in 2008.
Junk, treasure a matter of perspective
One man's junk really is someone else's treasure. I thought of my sister the very first time I heard that statement.
Reflecting on 2008 and looking to 2009
Now that winter has set in, 10 p.m. has become a bittersweet time of day for me. It’s not visions of sugar plums that...
