Part Two – Civil Unrest and the Death of Innocence – St. Paul & Minneapolis The thousands of peaceful protests have ended, the people have gone home.   The looters and rioters have vented their anger mostly in the dark of the night, they too have gone home. The television stations have the option to …

I awake from a sound sleep and I hear gun fire, lots of gun fire. I know what gun fire sounds like and it doesn’t sound like fireworks. It sounds like it is a couple of blocks away… so I fall back asleep. They most likely won’t come my way. I live in the U.S.A. …

For the 22nd year I’m returning from the South West United States and I’ve chosen a route that is slower and far more revealing. The need for seeing places other than interstate truck stops is my motivation. I’m driving on the state highways through the withering small towns on Kansas and Oklahoma. It is the …

BISON WORLD ESSAY Official Publication of the National Bison Association – I’m a small player in the bison industry yet it is an integral part of my life. I am a leather smith by trade, I contract tan perhaps thirty five to fifty thousand square feet of bison hides each year and market it to …

CORN IS OUR CURRENCY and SOYBEANS REPRESENT THE SECOND SISTER, THEY REPLACE THE LOST NITROGEN IN OUR FIELDS. Corn as a religious totem is exemplified in this simple but exceedingly effective logo-DeKalb Seed Corn. We are agrarians , our society has grown, our population is expanding because of mass produced food. There was a time …

I search my library and realize I have more than a few books that reference the plagues of history. The “Ghost Map of London” stands out because it is the most recent. It is a recounting of the cholera plague of 1854. It was a pitiful time but it was also enlightening because it was …

Many Grandparents knew the word, even great grand parents often knew the word. The word was “Omar”, little do most people know that it wasn’t just country slang or a colloquial but it is the shortened version of Omarolluk. If your great grandparents were midwestern farmers they spent many days cleaning and picking fieldstone out …

I’m in Covid 19 lock down and I wander around my home. The good news is I am not yet infected and I have enough space to continue to wander, both inside and out. This time in our lives has given me time to slow down and squint at what I’ve gathered over the decades….maybe …

It just happened without me thinking about it. I traveled 584 million miles and now people are wishing me good cheer and birthday greetings. It all has to do with the SUN. THE SUN WE HARVEST BY IT. THE SUN WE BASK IN IT THE SUN WE WAIT FOR IT THE SUN WE AVOID IT …

THE DAY THAT DECENCY DIED I remember my parents discussing the “concern” at the “handicapped school”. My uncle was a pioneer in child development and he was explaining to the special education teachers that the child in question was fully capable of understanding everything they said and did. This child in question had cerebral palsy …