Labor Day on the farm is a work day. I read the Sunday papers a day late. (I call this work, because it’s arguably associated with writing a column.)...
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What if I said to you that much of what we you eat every day amounts to an addictive drug that has captured our brains, rewired us into addicts...
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...
Almost hourly, I receive emails from Hong Kong, Nigeria or Quicksandistan that bring welcome news. I’ve won lotteries. Relatives of the email writers...
We in Blue Grass are in the time of thistle, teasel and burdock. America, too, is stuck in the weeds. Wherever I turn, I see their hostile takeover...
Most rural communities have weeklies devoted to classified ads. You can learn a lot from what’s wanted and what’s not.
I’ve been digging rocks out of my forest roads since before July 4th. I do this for several reasons, some of which even seem semi-rational.
If I were a timber rattlesnake, I would hang out just where I saw a big one three weeks ago in the woods on Devil’s Backbone.
Twenty-seven years ago on Father’s Day, I spent a sunny couple of hours digging a grave on top of a pretty West Virginia hill.
Among the many character flaws Americans scold themselves for these days, our lack of savings is, perhaps, the most understandable.