Dispatches

     While milestones. like Joanne's birthday, always come with some grief, grief ameliorates over time. Memories of her last birthday c...

      Writing about Dad's camera I said he's not on the group pictures because he always took the pictures. In those childhood years...

    To A God Unknown, John Steinbeck was given to me by Peter. Lars' fascination with Steinbeck, in an earlier phase of his life, means ...

      The farm of my childhood usually had a contingent of barn cats. They lived in the barn because Dad would not tolerate them in the vici...

       The farm on which I grew up wasn't very mechanized. There was a tractor on it and eventually two. These were used, almost exclusi...

    Here's what's on the internet about the saying about punishing good deeds. "No good deed goes unpunished" is a cynical...

      Once upon a time I was at a church that had four pastors. One a Sunday morning, the senior pastor was greeting parishioners at the doo...