Once Upon a Homecoming
This year the theme was “Once Upon a Homecoming” for our children’s Elkins High School homecoming parade. Our students are junior, freshman and 7th...
Changes ahead
Change can be easy, or it can be hard, but all things change.
Without beating around the bush, this is my final edition of Ozarks...
Making a living, making a life
I’ve never made my living farming or raising cattle, though I’ve done both.
Neither did my dad, though he spent a lifetime doing both.
Maybe I...
Making mistakes
Three out of the four of our children are very sociable. When they bring their friends out to the farm, it’s like an amusement...
Men and meat
Did you know that marketing campaigns have caused men, to eat beef because beef is what “real men” eat?
For generations, men have watched TV...
The opossum cousin
Once upon a time I was a close cousin to a possum.
Were you to come looking for me on certain days in late spring...
New best friends
This past month, the men in our family were able to attend an Outlaw Nationals sprint car race in Knoxville, Iowa. This involved packing...
Reasons to celebrate fall
I follow a social media page that focuses on my home county. The administrator of the page, who I went to high school with,...
A hot cup of sassafras tea
Once upon a time in the Ozarks we boiled poison tonic in the spring and lived to tell of it.
We called it, arguably the...
Hometown pride
In July, I had an opportunity to travel to Stuttgart, Ark. When I joined the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Research & Extension...
