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I’ve got a new compass

“Help wanted: Experienced travel er who can serve as an expedition guide and outfitter. Requires creativity, passion, adaptability, and creativity.

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Today’s agriculture is constantly changing

In the name of parenthood and education, we were involved in a major road trip last week helping daughter number two move to Starkville, Mississippi.

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Save your platitudes. Now is the time for action.

This is going to take more than platitudes.

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What do I do now?

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Prejudice and destruction are not the answer

What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was awful and wrong. There’s no excuse for his terrible action, and I was relieved when he was charged with murder, as he should be. But I don’t want to let this one situation cause prejudices of either race, or of officers.

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COPING WITH COVID: What the chaos has taught me

Someday, I’ll be able to tell my grandkids, “I survived 2020.” I need a T-shirt for that—maybe even a plaque to hang on my wall.

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Let us never forget

As I write this, I’m looking out my front window watching and hearing the rain on Memorial Day.

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A waste of agri-produce

“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”