I’ve spent a lifetime listening. I’ve sat at kitchen tables where the Formica was peeling and in mahogany offices where the air felt too thin to breathe. This thing we call the “MAGA movement.” They talk about a Carpenter from Nazareth, a man who didn’t have a stone to lay his head on, yet they’ve Read More …
Category: Life
I will finally acknowledge that there are some nice things in this world that do not involve the bass.
XMas Tree Chicken Bedding
Upcycling a Christmas tree as coop bedding is a clever way to provide extra insulation and enrichment for a flock. Pine and fir needles are naturally absorbent and can help manage odors in the coop, while the branches create great perching spots and “boredom busters” for chickens to peck at when they are spending more Read More …
Our Mr. Stacky Vertical Garden Experiment
One of my core philosophies here is to try a new thing every season. It keeps us learning, keeps the garden adaptable, and, most importantly, keeps us one step ahead of our five feathered garden “inspectors.” This year, we’re taking our planting to new heights, literally, with a 5-piece Mr. Stacky vertical unit. Here is Read More …
Prelude to an Afternoon of A Chicken
Claude was a very famous composer who lived in a house filled with velvet shadows and heavy silence. Everyone expected him to write grand music about the crashing sea or the drifting clouds. But on this morning, Claude sat at his piano with a heavy sigh. His music felt stuck, like a rainy day that Read More …
The Vanilla Fugue
In the heart of a town called Leipzig, there lived a man named Papa Bach. His house was never quiet. It hummed with the sound of “clink-clank-clunk” from the kitchen and “do-re-mi” from the parlor. Papa Bach was a man of music, and his head was always full of golden notes and silver rhythms. But Read More …
The Weaponization of Christianity
How Charlie Kirk used Christianity to divide America In the landscape of American political discourse, few figures embody the marriage of Christian identity and partisan warfare quite like Charlie Kirk. The founder of Turning Point USA has become a fixture in Republican circles, his influence extending from college campuses to the highest levels of GOP Read More …
The Golden Calf in the Radio Box
I was once told by a man of the cloth, one of the old-fashioned kind who still believed the Red Letters were more than just a stylistic choice by the printer, that the quickest way to lose your soul is to find a way to sell it at a profit. Now, I’ve seen many a Read More …
The New Gospel of the Gilded Calf
It has been remarked by men wiser than myself that the Good Book is like a mirror: if an ass looks in, you can’t expect an apostle to look out. These days, however, it seems a whole congregation of folks have looked into the Gospel and somehow mistaken the Beatitudes for a business prospectus. I Read More …
The Ultimate Farm-to-Table Vanilla Bean Custard
My obsession with real frozen custard started with a friend from Wisconsin, the undisputed capital of dairy. But it wasn’t until I started raising my own chickens that this recipe truly leveled up. There is nothing quite like using fresh-gathered backyard eggs to create a custard that is impossibly creamy and naturally golden. If you’ve Read More …