Flowering weeds line the rugged fence on the farm. Their juxtaposition makes sense to me, their beauty tucked in between barbed wire and slivery fence posts. {photo: credit} Rugged planks frame the acreage in morning light and the wood ...
Those of us who are old enough to remember the 80's know one thing for certain: We loved our hair. When I was 16 Madonna was in "Vogue." Cyndi Lauper identified my "True Colors" and Depeche Mode was helping me find my "Personal Jesus." We pegged ...
Photo credit to Cindee Snider Re “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, ...
(photo courtesy of Cindee Snider Re) That morning we had shoveled the driveway to help dad get to work and I had felt important. But that feeling didn’t last. Given a little time alone, insecurity had crept back into me and bled out through the re ...
First Week of School Dear Son and Daughter of Mine, I love that my heartbeat was the first one you heard and that my hand the first to hold yours. That God entrusted broken me with you two is humbling and overwhelming.When I ...
Paul Harvey gave the world a great gift when he made his "So God Made a Farmer" speech at the Future Farmer's of America Convention in 1978. In 2013, his words became a Superbowl Commercial for Dodge. It touched my Midwestern-raised heart. ...
