Leon Hale Talks About Owning Rural Property

I caught Leon Hales latest in my feed reader last week and thought he had a lot of good points. After spending a quarter of a century posting columns from

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The Trees Are Calling It Spring Already…

Spring Gradual warming that began earlier this week is forecast to continue through the weekend, and by early next week high temperatures should climb into the mid-70s as warm, wet

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A Concept To Wrap Your Spirit Around

A day isn’t just a standard measure, all the same size so each fits on a calendar page. A day is a period of light, an astronomical event. I felt

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Verlyn Klinkenborg’s “Readers’ Muse” for the End of Summer

A good book is a good book whatever the weather or temperature. But summer brings with it the illusion of more free time, and just about now — when the

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Something Amazing Has Happened To My Reading Shelf…

I was sitting here contemplating the books piled on my reading shelf the other day and noticed an remarkable thing has happened…What once was predominantly fiction has become almost entirely

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