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 tru ...
(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 t ...
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 he ...
When I was 9 years old I fell. I landed belly down on rough, weathered wood. Palms, wrists, elbows, stomach, knees. My lanky body turned red with fresh pain. My brothers and I were at the family farm in Iowa. One of our favori ...
