Flipping the Woolly Bugger
Finding myself 2000 miles from Montana but with a couple of boys who want to go fishing, we ventured into the brown waters of...
Why We Consent to the Wholesale Destruction of Good Land
Harrison County, Ohio.
After I first moved to Harrison County, my smaller children used to beg that we drive home after excursions via a little-used...
The Mishawaka Cruisers
They make their measured circuit along three blocks of neon fast-food chains, the darkened panes of auto dealerships, the Checks-Cashed, and the boarded Dollar Store.
A Sheeshah Pipe for the Porch?
I came to Cairo to get a better sense of the prospects for such a global conversation. If the battle over values is likely to play out globally in this century, how open are we to our natural allies?
Getting the Garden Going, One Baby-Step at a Time
This academic year Friends University found itself wondering what to do with a plot of land, directly beside and behind some student dormitories. Through...
On Being a Worthy Heir of the Agrarian Contrarians
But, as Shakespeare wrote, we sometimes “by indirections find directions out.”
April Advent
While April first brought April Fools’ Day with all of its jokes and gags, the foolish part of the first of April was not...
The Eckhart Tolle of Space
“Many propositions involving temporal concepts which seem obviously and necessarily true are just as necessarily but not obviously true when formulated in terms of...
In the Creeks and Along the Rails: Tales from Pollock
I was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, a town known, if it is known at all, for four things: it is the oldest city in...
Among the Mad Farmers: Chicago Good Food Festival and Conference
“If you’ve never worked a tradeshow booth,” a business pal once remarked to me, “you’re not a real American.” True dat. At the Good...