“Dad, why are you taking all those pictures of digital maps?” A worthy question; the stranger to my right in 22C probably thinks to...

Ella captured this fuzzy snapshot at the moment the giant black buzzard alighted on our neighbor’s chimney. He (or she?) had just...

Early 1980s Halloween. A shout out to all those goofy Halloween costumes we wore as kids, and to the families of today who make the 31st...

Having grown up in Wheaton, twenty-five miles from downtown Chicago, one would think that my wife Ella would have enjoyed clean, purified...

If you pinpoint Wheaton, Illinois, on a map, you’ll find a suburban community about 25 miles due west of downtown Chicago. One of many...

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,”...