Category Archives: Essays

Sowing dreams

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

(Beware, this is an essay. Once you begin reading you may not stop, and there goes five minutes of your life, *poof*. The harvest of possibilities to be found in a vegetable garden in early spring is worth more in some … Continue reading →

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Home folks

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

On our way to Michigan for Thanksgiving a few years back, Janet and I stopped in my father’s birth and burial town of Elliot, Ill (pop. 327). I hadn’t been there in 50 years, but reports from two brothers who … Continue reading →

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Sowing dreams

Posted on February 4, 2011 by

 (Caution this is an essay. You might read all the way through and lose 5 minutes of your life, *poof*.) The harvest of possibilities to be found in a vegetable garden in early spring is worth more in some ways … Continue reading →

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Speaking out

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

Okay, yours truly has a solid military background with the Marine Corps in Vietnam, medals and all, Purple Heart, but because of that other life I learned to know the truth and power of Nonviolence. And let’s say the last … Continue reading →

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