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On Ancestors and the Future
It is the Monday eve of Thanksgiving. I am digging through a recipe box searching for my Mom’s pecan pie recipe. It calls for both bourbon and maple syrup, so you can see why it’s a good one.
I sat down to write a piece about shopping local and using our powerful dollars wisely this holiday season, for they truly do count.  And as much as I believe in supporting our small businesses, the thing that brings me to tears is this recipe box. ...

On Neighboring
When I was ten years old, a tornado came through and wrecked our farm.
The three-hundred-year-old Cathedral Pines crashed down all around us, ruining fence lines and clipping the barn.  I remember seeing the apple trees my great grandfather planted get uprooted and fly horizontally through the air.  No lives were lost,...

On Learning
My goal before this snowy, icy, windy, miserable winter was over was to learn how to do a donut.  A real one like the high school kids do, with a rear wheel drive car.
Not sure how I managed to get through my teens without learning this right of passage.  But it was time....

On Self-Reliance
A jar of cider my friend pressed because he could.
Enjoyed while taking a breather from cutting firewood.