Cousin Ollie snugged another bale of hay into place. Our pirate ship of timothy and clover was almost complete. “We should call these Hayos,” he said. “You know, like Legos, only bigger.” “I don’t ...

Perhaps time does come to a standstill. However, if it does, it is only momentary. Perhaps the "now" does not really need to know the past. Perhaps what will be will simply be. If we really believe ...

I'm wondering if the person who made up the children's game "Chutes and Ladders" was a dairy farmer who milked cows in a large hip-roof barn where the cattle were housed in the lower level and the ...

I did something last week that I haven't done in many years. I made some hay. In my other life outside the newsroom, I live on a farm where my wife and I run a bed and breakfast and raise sheep. Thus ...