I’ve had a love/hate affair with garden tillers since I was born. The first one I had was like a small Volkswagen Beetle on wheels. It was well-used when I got it and had to be started by someone taller and stronger than me. I could not get effective leverage on the pull string even by climb…
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On Sunday, Numbers Two and Four came looking for blankets to build a fort.
COVID has been hard on all three of my daughters’ bathroom scales. I guess they had been lamenting about their weight gains to each other and had formed a competition to see who could become healthier over the next three months. They sent each other pictures of the number on their bathroom s…
A few years ago a farming friend told me during one of our periodic conversations over morning coffee, “If you want to know a little bit about something, just ask me – I only know a little bit.” This is the same person who proclaimed, “If you talk too much, you’ll get a sunburned tongue.”
It’s 5:17 a.m. on a Monday and I’m reading the news.
“Are you going to be home this afternoon? We are in the area and thought we would stop by if you are home.”
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My wife harvested her onions, the tomato crop is picking up speed and I noticed the last cucumbers are big and yellow.
I was sitting under a shade umbrella beside the public pool, trying not to melt in the 94 degree temperature and 80 percent humidity. Fully clothed and wearing a hat that is an embarrassment even to me, we had begun “grandchildren week,” a week where the three youngest grandchildren gather a…
The tiny village of Westphalia, Iowa, my home town, celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding on July 3, 2022. Westphalia has held an annual two-day celebration of Independence Day for as long as I can remember; the event is still called the St. Boniface Parish Picnic even though the …
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At a lunch with two other grandmothers recently, family childhood stories were shared in rapid succession. My friends encouraged me to share our stories in this column, but they asked that their real names not be used. Apparently they want their children to continue to speak to them.
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Well, it’s July and I’m three months behind on my summer schedule.
There are mysteries on the shelves in my home office. They aren’t mysteries to me, of course, but they will be to whoever has the unenviable task of packing up after my demise.
How people form opinions is well-researched and not terribly complicated. Opinion formation is an established field which many marketers and the news media use to influence what they want people to agree with.
It’s a soft and pleasant Fourth of July morning.
I love the United States of America, flaws and all. I have always felt this way, but the feeling has become stronger over the past year.
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Last night I told my wife, “Just think, this week the days are going to start getting shorter. Winter is coming, baby!”
I had a frightening thought the other day. What if our bodies and minds have tricks to them that we haven’t discovered, like our smartphones seem to have?
Scientific evidence indicating benefits from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is mounting, contradictory to the long-held assumptions that ADHD limited the well-being and achievements of persons with the diagnosis.
The article began, “It was a small trial, just 18 cancer patients ....”
This time of year is really hard on my body. Suddenly everything outside is screaming for attention, but I have let my body do whatever it wants for so long (which was basically nothing) that it isn’t keen on suddenly following directions now.
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