I am the Mother of a teenage girl. It’s a hard job. Hard like mining for rocks, hard. I wasn’t always that. Once upon a time, I was the...

First he showed me how to do it. He sat down with the animal in his lap. “Hold his legs firm, up and behind his ears, pinned together in...

He gave me a ride to the airport which, I’m sure, in his mind was absolution. Water beaded out of my skin and out of my eyes and tiny...

Kiki noticed it first. When the tv was on you couldn’t hear it, but after everyone else was in bed, there it was, like an amber alert....

I pulled back the door and got a splinter in my finger, the wagging one. The door to this particular stall of the barn was steaming from...

Everything seems easier when you look at it from the opposite side. I may be a cis-female but my whole life I've had a hard time being a...

I learned that the average age of that great American myth, the American family farmer, has bumped up to 63 this year. Still pretty...

I worry about nothing a lot. I know my daughter likes to worry and to nothing too but I don’t want her to know we share that. I don’t...

The thing is dear Millennials, I do believe that you got somethings right. Take, for example, the shared invisible labor thing at home....

She was intent on staying passive, pretty sure she should not struggle against the grip that held her in place before the officiant. Her...

In the food business, traceability is the way of the future. Know where your food comes from, follow it back through the supply chain all...

a sentence. ~ Thank you Selena for this and other memorable 'forgettable' moments. Remember the accidental dinner party? I do. The kind...

The art of making a good pie is the crust. I learned this from two sources, the 4-H county fair rulebook and Martha Stewart. Maintaining...