We try to take Sundays off at our Hoosier farmhouse, and not even open the roadside stand along State Road 135 in the village of…
Posts tagged as “essays”
Charlotte Hoak grew up in the wilds of Comptche, born in 1874 on ranch land that had formerly been under the jurisdiction of the local…
An early August road trip heading east from the city of Ithaca across New York State promises calm, pastoral progress. With farming in steep decline…
My wife and I are both great supporters of the Junior Livestock Auctions held at local fairs. Recently we attended the pig auction at the…
We are coming up on the 25th anniversary of the Election Day on which California voters legalized marijuana for medical use. Expect a wave of…
Two swallowtail butterflies are again fluttering in my backyard, bringing me cheer for about the 20th year in a row. It remains a mystery whether…
On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us all out It is…
Marijuana was the surprise ingredient in the economy of the backwoods in the mid-seventies and made a lot of twenty-something dirty hippies, slackers, and university-educated…
Who didn’t see it coming? The Taliban take-over of Afghanistan. Maybe not as fast and as dramatic as it happened. But anyone without blinders had…
Before we get started let’s learn how to correctly say rodeo, it’s ro-dee-o, not ro-day-o. I never participated in a big-time rodeo venue. One time…
In the same week as a judge handed down a death sentence for Dr. John Wheeler, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted to allow…