Burning news

March 12, 2025–Local feed dealer Bruce Woerner once told me about the time he was drinking coffee with his buddies at the local diner. One member of the group always kept his nose in the newspaper, so Bruce decided to have a little fun. He took out his lighter, leaned...

Don’t say it

March 5, 2025–”We were never meant to hear everyone’s opinion on everything all the time.” Sean Ono Lennon “It’s 17 degrees.” Ten minutes later: “It’s 18 degrees.” Fifteen minutes later: “It’s…” “Stop saying the temperature!” She was right. And I...

Less is more

March 26, 2025–How many squares of toilet paper do you use? How many paper towels does it take to clean up a cup of spilled milk? If you had parents or grandparents who lived through the Depression, I wager that you are familiar with the often compulsive lengths they...

Numb3rs

Feb 5, 2025–How would you live your life differently if you didn’t now what time it was? Or what day? Or what year? Or how old you were? This is not an idle question. I don’t think we realize how much of our lives are controlled by numbers. For some reason, humans are...

Finding Stuff

January 29, 2025– “Bound and binding, binding, bound, Hear the sight, see the sound. What was lost now is found, Bound and binding, binding, bound.” You’re walking out of your house for an important appointment, when you remember you misplaced your...