Spring Day Blustery breezes, sunshine and sudden shower Banish hoary-handed winter from the land. Burgeoning buds and lancing leaves appear,...
Finding a role in my family’s small dairy operation is quite literally the oldest goal I can recall from my...
The following is an excerpt from Robert Block’s novel Ardensville. Harold Harold Vinnoir. He came from Minnesota. He is a...
You will ask—name the mushrooms on the grounded log And the anatomies of the shifting clouds. Tell me these fifty-one shells on...
Steven. Steven, is loose. Loose, so I had to go looking for him. I’d been meaning to fix the gate....
Mail frauds, April Fools, and ‘Jaws’ in the toilet An excerpt from Jim Trelease’s family memoir, Looking Backward, used by...
It was the fourth of July weekend and Doug Edwards and Josh Adkins from Franklin Illinois had set up a...
Rocky and rolling hills give way To green green grass and a glimpse of brighter days Inland from the sea...
The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...
TOBY’S SOLILOQUY To think what stands against me still is not the harm of falling off a ladder at two-storey...
When planted, potatoes are laid out in a particular pattern, like the 5 side of a die. Four corners of...