The “National Capitol Region” is not conducive to, shall we say, serene living. My family jokes, “You don’t need to hang in the left...

Well, it’s been a week since my last post. While not my intention to run silent for so long, I have yet to experience a day in my life...

Continuing the agricultural discourse we kicked off on October 12th, National Farmers’ Day… Readers beware : While I make no claims to...

This post is a continuation of Oct 12th’s observation of National Farmers’ Day. You may want to start there. “It’s just a little...

Today, October 12th, is National Farmers Day. I realize that for most, as holidays go, it probably falls somewhere between Groundhog Day...

In the early Summer of 1993, North Park University’s choir toured Sweden, Russia, and Estonia, beginning with a traverse of the old...

I am a week late, a dollar short, and a few bricks shy of a full load … Lina Sandell’s birthday was last week, October 3rd, but I got...

Do you give the horse his might? Do you cloth his neck with a mane? Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is...

Throughout our wayfaring across America, we have come to know numerous small farmers. This lunatic, organic, farm-to-table,...

This fuzzy picture of my Great-Uncle Franklin is one of my favorite faded Colorado memories. “His cowboy persona was no act. He had the...

Still on the farming theme…. It is the time of year when we think of harvest. If you travel the nation as we have, you can witness many...

“Keep a movin’ Dan, don’t you listen to him Dan, He’s the devil not a man, and he spreads the burnin’ sand, with water.” Our young sons...

As I was two or three at the time, I do not remember the moment this photo was taken, but this handsome quarter horse(?) is perhaps the...

As our son relayed the story … “We were robbed! The ‘outlaws’ rode down the train, stopped it on the tracks, climbed into the passenger...

An exemplar of mid-20th century of Americana is cowboy singer Marty Robbins–in our home, my father’s 33 LP “Gunfighter Ballads,”...

“Some of my Colorado relatives used to get a chuckle that their state, in deference to its rarity and fragility, levied a monetary...

We both heard it at the same moment–for me it occurred as I walked down the driveway in front of our house, Ella as she stood in the...

Juxtaposition captures the eye. So it was for us on January 3rd, 2011, the morning we awoke in our new rental home in Las Vegas, Nevada....

Were I to guess at most-quoted Old Testament verses, Isaiah 40:8 might be at the top of the list. “The grass withers, the flower fades,...

I was a bit overwhelmed to be in St Petersburg, a humble untraveled American, here at this classic Soviet monument built to honor...