People who live where it snows a lot in winter don't understand ho w snowfall could be exciting to an area that only sees it rarely. May...

Today I woke to snow but this part of the Coast Range didn't get much, and what there was left by noon. The cows and sheep complained un...

And why does it matter? D efinitions fr om American Heritage Dictionary: Ideology -- 1. The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and ...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! In this country, every year we celebrate the fourth Thursday of November as a time to commemorate our country...

I don't know how these tests work with so few questions but here comes another quick one that Fran at Sacred Ordinary posted on her sit...

We are constantly being told what is true. Plus told that conspiracies are ridiculous. Despite that, many have questioned who really was beh...

I got this test from Nobody Asked and thought it was fun. It seemed accurate to me as I have always thought in my part of the West (sometim...

There are a lot of acronyms for fear but my favorite is: False Expectations Appearing Real Is fear ever a valid emotion? It is definitely on...

To be honest, I am not a huge fan of romantic movies. First on my want-to-see list always will come stories about the western experience, th...

When we purchased this farm, a few steps from the garage was a small greenhouse. It was very simply built, mostly with windows salvaged from...

I had said no more politics for awhile here, but maybe this isn't. It's about how I feel the morning after when we know the House ...

The name Pineapple Express conjours up warmth, tropics, beauty, good taste, like maybe a type of yogurt. What the phenomena actually means w...

Across the United States, in two days people will be voting (some, with vote-by-mail, like Oregon or absentee ballots, already have). We wi...

When I wrote about John Kerry and his big mouth, I didn't go far enough with what I feel is going on right now regarding Iraq, the mil...

When John Kerry managed to botch a joke in such a way that it left open the interpretation that he was saying people end up fighting in Iraq...

One of the issues that conservatives used to pat themselves on the back for was how they valued states' rights. Basically that meant a c...

Over and over we keep hearing that the Reagan administration lowered taxes and miraculously, rather like Jesus with the fish and loaves, the...

Politics and morality. To use those two words together could be considered an oxymoron, but the subject here is not whether politics are mor...

"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kin...