Down on the Farm

While visiting relatives, when I saw one of those pill dispensers in their medicine cabinet with the compartments for each day of the week which help them to remember what...

A study by three research psychologists released last week entitled, "The Smell of Virtue," claims to show that cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. The researchers administered tests on subjects...

A residential treatment center opened up recently near Seattle for people addicted to computer games. The first patient entered treatment after playing the online game "World of Warcraft" for up...

Baseball is absolutely designed to break your heart! After thrilling fans with a precarious and improbable victory over the Detroit Tigers in the one-game play-off for the division title, our...

On one of those perfect September days a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make use of the sunshine and warmth and go on a hike. I parked my...

On this matter of health care: Every single developed democracy in the world has found a way to provide health care coverage for all of its citizens except for the...

In my mind, I think people have a right to wear whatever they want and do whatever they want and be however they want and it is none of my...

As a follow-up to his smash-hit 2006 book "The Power of Pouting," rural sociologist Dr. Herman Snordpickel, Phd., recently published his latest study, "The Art of Getting Attention: A Rural...

The Art of Getting Attention As a follow-up to his smash-hit 2006 book "The Power of Pouting," rural sociologist Dr. Herman Snordpickel, Phd., recently published his latest study, "The Art...

Today, you can drive across the United States in all directions and stay in the same hotel chain and eat the same food in the same restaurant chain and drive...

The Mountain West of the United States is an astonishingly varied showcase of nature's wonders. From the Grand Canyon to Glacier Park, Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, Mt. Rushmore and many...

My grandfather had a thing for peanut butter. He ate it by the spoonful. It couldn't be just any peanut butter.

After 10 years and 260,000 miles, the time came to put my loyal and trustworthy Ford Ranger out to pasture. I saved the taxpayers some money by not taking advantage...

On the way to the Cities last week, traffic I-94 slowed to a halt right near Monticello. Stop and go, stop and go. If my lane stopped and I slid...

After years of cruel and unusual delays, during the spring of 5th grade, I was finally granted the birthright of every country-born male-child: A Honda 50 motorbike. The purchase wasn't...