In our town, Christmas in particular sparked an informal and good-natured competition for best window decoration and none were rarely better than the effort put forth by our local hardware store and Charlie Fedderson. Charlie ruled the hardware store like a […]
As the character, Barney Fife, Don Knotts once uttered some incredible wisdom. When asked if he was afraid, he replied; “There’s nothin’ to fear but fear itself—and that’s what I got—fear itself!” I’ve always thought that was a statement of profound […]
I drive down country roads, far from scheduled time and harried people. The road, bordered by 3-strand barbed wire fence that defines pasture and contains the placid cattle that walk the same cow path that their predecessors walked, barn to pasture, pasture […]
After almost sixty years of getting up and going to work in the morning, every morning. Or every night, because I didn’t always work during daylight hours. But what I did do, was go to work. With rarely a day off other […]