A week of unseasonably cool weather reminiscent of summer days on the Mendo coast blasted through southern Indiana at twenty miles an hour out of…
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The rows of green salad bowl and buttercrunch lettuce that I'd planted in the shade of a line of hard maples and shagbark hickories are…
Grandpa and Grandma stopped by our little homestead, rolled up the driveway in their luxury sedan, all spiffed up in Sunday duds to offer my…
Across the table sat Grandpa in the straw cowboy hat he has to wear these days on account of the skin cancer that developed on…
The watermelons are ripening almost on time in spite of the unusually cold and wet spring that delayed planting by a month, thanks to a…
Here it is eight in the morning, and I'm actually seated at a desk in our farm house with a light bulb illuminating ink on…
All those years in Boonville I pined for the excitement of the April storms in these here Kentuckiana hills. It's an annual reenactment of the…
When my teenage son and I bounced from Boonville in the middle of January we were merely embarking on a visiting mission — a vacation,…
Thursday they were predicting near-record heat for the region, and the outdoor temperature at seven in the morning was a balmy 54°, the southewestern breeze…
“What's the matter with you?” they keep asking. “Why on earth would you come to Indiana from California in the middle of the winter?” The…
The open road was a welcome break from virtual confinement at Wayne’s austere ranch. The three of us followed the crowned gravel and clay contouring…