Category: Family Life

August 17, 2013

An Average Milker

One of my classic farm country stories is about how my neighbor K, on meeting…

August 16, 2013

I firmly believe that my spending habits do more to influence the way my country…

August 14, 2013

We took Petra on her first camping trip last weekend. Well, sort of first–as Carlos…

August 13, 2013

Petra has a bib with a horse wearing a cowboy hat on it. What does…

August 13, 2013

Welcome to the August 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Sibling Revelry This post was written…

August 12, 2013

Hey baby, what are you doing? You haven’t been into the stairs ever before… Making…

August 8, 2013

“Do you think I should try to put Petra to bed now, or does she…

August 6, 2013

My mom and Gary had a party a couple weeks ago to celebrate the end…

August 5, 2013

from Old English glōmung, from glōm; related to Old Norse glāmr moon. Here, in our modern farmlet context, it means, “time…

August 4, 2013

Laura gave me some purple coneflower last year when she was thinning them out. I…