“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” Louise Elizabeth Gluck Farm life has always followed the cycle of the seasons. For instance, as I was growing up, June and later in July if there was a second crop was haymaking time. Then, as the intense heat of late July and […]
There was once an old farmer in my grandfather’s neighborhood named Crow. He was known locally as Old Crow, and I only know two things about him, that he was impoverished and that he had a large family. When my dad was very young he wondered aloud at Old Crow’s impoverished state and at the
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In his latest Louisiana-based crime novel, author James Lee Burke has one of his characters observe, “There are things that no human being should see or hear or know about.” However, choosing to ignore unpleasant realities does not eliminate them. For instance, throughout human history nearly all societies have devised ever more unique and gruesome
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I do not know Sandy the raccoon’s story from beginning to end. I suspect that he was born in a den in a hollow tree somewhere in the swamp behind my grandpa’s farmhouse. He was orphaned at an early age when his mother was killed by a passing motorist on State Route 511 and was
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In February of this year, in the town of Daniel, Wyoming, one Cody Roberts, owner of a local trucking company, pursued a young female wolf to exhaustion and proceeded to run over her with his snowmobile. Not content with this act of cruelty, Mr. Roberts then tied the wounded creature up and taped her mouth
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Our friend Marvin has eight children. He tells us that each wants their own horse. Marvin is Amish. On any given day we can see the simple unadorned black buggies of the Amish plying rural roadways throughout many eastern and midwestern states. The comforting clip-clop of buggy horses drawing carts and wagons, lit only by
OH MY! There once was a most kindly and well-intentioned man who whenever the opportunity presented itself shot turkey buzzards, laboring under the misapprehension that because they feed on carrion, they spread disease. The reality is, of course, that they occupy a vital niche in the food chain, serving in a sense as nature’s garbage
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Massive Casualties On Old Man River As the golden tide of autumn crept across the landscape drawing a myriad of colors from the northern Ohio foliage, I caught sight of a number of flags decorating a small country cemetery, informing those aboard any passing vehicle that veterans of our wars were interred there. I pulled
A Peek Into The Dark Side Of The Human Condition “The least I can do is speak for those who cannot speak for themselves”Jane Goodall The little Asian elephant who would someday bear the name Topsy was promoted as the first of her kind to be born in the US. In actuality, she was born
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“In my opinion, an officer who goes into battle without his sword is improperly dressed.”Lt. Col. Jack Churchill Recent events affirm once again the old axiom that war is hell. The war in eastern Europe triggered by Russia’s invasion of its neighbor Ukraine groans on into yet another freezing winter, and the war between Israel
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