Happy National Candy Corn Day! Lots of people hate Candy Corn. Lots of people love it. How do I know? Because nine billion candy-corn KERNELS, or thirty-five million pounds, are produced every year! Somebody is loving that velvety smooth texture, the...
Sometime in autumn… I’m outside for reasons other than enjoying nature, my mind dripping with copious thoughts of numerous and diverse things, hurrying along, when suddenly, IT surrounds me like a cloak. You might say . . . IT arrests me. I stop. Look around. Listen....
The other day, a man named Scott came to fix the dishwasher in a house we lease. He was bowed in the shoulders and wore knee-high therapeutic socks. He walked slightly lopsided and breathed heavily with effort as he bent to check out the appliance. His knees hurt. His...
We’ve been making this meatloaf with slight variations in my family for as long as I can remember. When people say they hate meatloaf, I’m astounded. This meatloaf is delicious enough to serve to your snootiest company!  1-1/2 to 2 lbs. hamburger or a combination of...
Who is Buck Brannaman? Buck Brannaman is a horse trainer, author and star of the widely acclaimed Buck – an eighty-eight minute documentary. For more than thirty years, Brannaman has taught that riding a horse is “like dancing—a combination of wooing, leading and...
