Sometime in January, 1974, Omanson received divorce papers from his wife. Caught off-guard and emotionally crushed, he just signed the...
Autumn Caledonia County, Vermont Why not write something for those who scratched out improbable livings here? Somebody has...
This photo is of my father. I hold it in my hands, a 4-inch by 4-inch Kodak memory of my...
What follows is a selection from the opening chapters of BJ Omanson’s memoir Three Years on the Nowhere Road in...
He held up the phone so that only half of her mother’s face shown in the screen window. “Is this...
THE PARLOR is a new series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can...
Rolls of hay lean into the hillside, peppery-sweet, thick wheels, spiraling to rest in slumped shoulders of land; bonfire weather...
Two classes later, I walk into Advanced Biology consumed with worry about what Mr. Crouse will say to my parents,...
Child of the Large-Beaked Bird The crows are up to no good, tapping the tin roof like it’s Miss Glover’s...
My Mother Hoped for the Best My mother would pause in her sweeping and lean on the brush to listen...
Cowhouse In the beginning they had one cow – a tough little heifer that could kick like a mule. She...
Diviners A child, I followed him around the field, held a wish-bone between my fingers. And when he paused and...