Photo Challenge: Evanescent
After the bay gelding's leg is doctored and wrapped, I walk the fence line looking at bent posts and hair...
Photo Challenge: The Road Taken.
Dreams are only transparent. On this routine day, let my eyes close in simple praise for ordinary moments of...
Photo Challenge: Against the Odds
Roused by a whisper from a lost distance, through cold glass windows in deserted basements, down wet alleys, past dumpsters...
Photo Challenge: Repurpose
All of us here, we used to be someone else. We each had a plan; it was meant to go...
Climate Change: Not Just Bad for Polar Bears.
Farm kids, like me, learn early that a healthy anxiety about the weather is the subtext of every task--from lambing season, to...
Photo Challenge: Resilient
This out-flat prairie, sun burned and wind-scraped, spends winter draped in the dull range of color called earth tones; upscale...
Remembrance: Someone's Always Dying
It's that weird week between the holidays. I never know what day it is so I mess up scheduling around Christmas,...
The Politics of Holiday Pie
Inconceivable: I'm going to share my pie recipe. I'll pause and give my friends time to pick themselves up. They know...
Winterizing the Compassion Fatigue. Again.
Chatting lightly about weather is considered the tiniest of small talk, unless you live outside the urban bubble. We take...
Going the Full Heart Distance: Saying So Long
It's deep fall here on our farm. Most of the leaves are gone; Canada geese are on the wing. Each...
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