We’ve come a long way, or have we?
Is anyone else old enough to remember when the worst epithet you could scream to someone on the playground who was bullying you was,...
Hornet’s nest tells the true story of snowfall
Remember that high hornets' nest I wrote about in the Jan. 21 column? Old-timers believed the higher the hornets built their nests, the deeper...
Do you know where Remi might be?
If you are not a "dog person" you might as well turn the page.But if you are one of those who consider your dog,...
Where is the predicted mild winter?
As Punxsutawney Phil, sensing that his winter's snooze is about to be interrupted, begins to twitch in his cozy man-made burrow, I implore you...
Take time to read your holiday cards
Now is the time to gather up all the beautiful, humorous, thoughtful, pictorial, etc. etc. greeting cards you've received since the holiday season began.Put...
Experience Christmas Eve in 1959
Once again I'm sharing with you my mother's thoughts of Christmas and even though you receive this week's Farm and Dairy on Christmas Eve,...
Mother’s words convey joy of season
It's been quite a while since I shared with you one of my columns written for Farm and Dairy by my mother, Berenice T....
Try to be a little Pollyanna-ish
Oh how my sister and I hated Pollyanna.Pollyanna -- the heroine of a long-ago children's book -- was a symbol of relentless cheerfulness.No matter...
Did you blink? It is indeed all gone
Somebody -- was it you? -- really, really blinked from the time you were warned that if you did it would all be gone!...
Blink and it will all be long gone
Don't even blink, or everything will be gone.That fire-red inferno of a maple tree now ablaze in the front yard will be naked.That birch...
