Tag Archives: Rural America
Do rural brains really drain?

Do rural brains really drain?

I often get requests to not write about certain individuals with whom I share mixed marital arts. Therefore, I will not name my wife, Melissa, as the only requester in this group of one.

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How Blue Grass might approach terrorism

In 26 years of living on the same speck of rural America, I’ve felt threatened once.

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Rural America: Not healthy, wealthy or wise

Health and health care are matters of concern in the American countryside as well as everywhere else. The research shows that we who live in rural areas are less healthy than those in America’s cities and suburbs.

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Is rural America cursed with isolation?

I had a bit part 46 years ago in my high school’s senior class musical, “Brigadoon.” Since I can’t sing, dance or act, I was cast as a dry goods merchant.

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Rural America is ready to stimulate

Those of us who live and work in what the New Yorker might consider the muddle of the American nowhere may have once believed that life at the fat end of the Nation’s political…

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