Waiting For The Slinging To Cease
Does the pre-election mud hit you like it hits me? Not a soft, warm variety that makes me ready for the spa, this mud is cold and slimy, and I have some homework to do to get polished up in time to vote.
Too much silence about merger
The weakly regulated, wild west show that has been the Chicago futures markets is poised to become a wilder, more global show now that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced it was purchasing archrival Chicago Board of Trade for $8 billion.
Cheering for a friend in World Series
Baseball, to me, is still the great American pastime. So many of my memories from childhood revolve around playing baseball in the side yard with my sisters and brother or fielding a team with lots of cousins in the wide open grassy area near my Aunt Dee's pond.
False comfort: Raw milk is safe
There is a sense of complacency about food safety: Our food supply is safe; I've never gotten sick. But the recent spinach/E.
An offer you can’t understand
The next afternoon after this tragedy, a beautiful autumn day, I was pleasantly surprised to come home and find our little Amish neighbor girls, Anna and Lizzie, here in our back yard, picking up walnuts as we had told them they were welcome to do.
A story we’d rather not tell
In a perfect world, we'd never print another article like Tony Nicoletto's page one story about his miraculous recovery from a farm accident.
Can I get a re-run of my 29th birthday?
We are (too) fast approaching yet another 30-something birthday and let me assure you the new has worn off.
Reliving The Personal Touch
When I think back to my trick-or-treating days as a kid, my memories strike a contrast with the door-to-door invasions we think of today.
It’s time to say goodbye and move on
Dianne Shoemaker and I have been sharing this Dairy Channel column since 1997, I think. That's a total of about 130 Dairy Channel articles for each of us.
Gunning for the rural vote in November
Show me the contents of a person's wallet and I'll outline their life. My skinny wallet, for example, holds just two credit cards (likes convenience, hates consumer debt), a grocery store discount card (cheapskate), a driver's license, voter's registration card and fishing license (name, address, age, dull life) as well as a blood donor card (O Positive).
