It’s dairy conference time again
It hardly seems like two years have passed, but the registration brochures circulating for the Ohio Dairy Management Conference confirm that they have.
Political wisdom for the heartland
The first political wisdom ever sent my way came from the gravelly throat of Everett Dirksen.
During Dirksen's 1968 reelection stop in my southern Illinois hometown, I asked the white-maned Senate Minority Leader how he'd outflank Mayor Daley's Chicago vote machine.
Staring down the mouse that roared
I am decidedly a country girl from way back, but I confess to one odd trait that makes me look like a city kid in the biggest way.
Pillow talk: In pursuit of bedded bliss
I had no idea so much was riding on my mattress.
That is, until the down comforter on our bed sprang a leak.
A Tale of Tapioca: Daddy’s Little Deception
Miffed and mildly embarrassed, my high school senior, Jo, admitted one more time to friends at school that, as a little girl, her dad told her that tapioca was fish eggs.
Big GOP win: Tough ag fights ahead
Just before midnight Nov. 2, the empty Guinness cans in my kitchen sink rattled.
Two (of the three; there would be more later) fell.
Listening is more than just hearing
"You often think that if you listen to what other people or situations require, you are being passive, even subordinate.
Foodservice giant: Save the farmers
When Rick Schnieders was 10, his first job was bagging potatoes at his father's small grocery store in Iowa.
We’re gonna need a big combine
There is nothing quite so delightful as a child at play, imagination at full mast, evoking our own childhood past.
Renegade ATV riders just plain slobs
Growing up, my sister Carol and I turned just about every corner of our parents' 98 acres into our own personal playhouse.
