Among the many character flaws Americans scold themselves for these days, our lack of savings is, perhaps, the most understandable.
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The day after Memorial Day, I got out a little box that I keep in my sock drawer. Inside are my father’s two WWII shoulder sleeve insignias.
It’s about 8 p.m. It is unseasonably cold in the Virginia mountains. I am sweating. I am also unseasonably cold…and cranky to boot.
I spent Saturday rubbing my own nose in my own farm failures. Regular abrasion sessions of this sort have kept my nose small and orderly over the...
I had been dreading this past weekend for a month. The country mouse from Blue Grass, population about 50, was headed to the City of New York. For an...
April 16th is a big day in my dining room. I clear the table, floor, piano bench, piano, hanging plants and chairs of dozens of paper piles.
Three big helicopters flew in low and fast over Devil’s Backbone, the 4,000-foot-high Appalachian ridge that is the eastern rim of my end of...
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...
Something’s up in television land. Have you noticed all the shows on loggers? The History Channel brings us “AXMEN” about crews in Northwest Oregon...
Every once in a while you read a memoir of folks doing something so colossally pointless that you root for them to succeed. Like a one-legged man of...