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Mar.10.2012 REVIEW: Lowcountry Bribe - a Carolina Slade Mystery by C. Hope Clark Rules were absolute; that’s the way she was raised. If she followed the rules, she’d be just fine… Uh-uh, honey. Not this time. Not for Carolina Slade, County Manager, United States Department of Agriculture. Slade's professional life has blitzed from the structured normalcy of bailing out farmers...	Jul.07.2010 America under Obama Well, at least Obama has started repairing America's good name abroad.Under the previous administration it had been seriously tarnished.Every businessman knows that you cannot conduct legitimate business without a good name.So Obama has a plus working for him in his personality.Also,he does not...
Mar.31.2010 Riddles in the Dark Any number of metaphors might be used for the predicament today’s industrial societies face as the age of cheap energy stumbles to its end, but the one that keeps coming to mind is drawn from a scene in one of the favorite books of my childhood, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It’s the point in the...	Mar.11.2010 GET YOUR EARTH ON!!! Earth is the heart of our universe, pulsing with love and life at all times. We totally depend on our planet to give lavishly and unconditionally of itself for our nourishment and support. Over the years, we have fallen out of balance with our earth, causing disorder, affliction, and shortage in...
Mar.04.2010 Farming Farming Farming:Old Farming Days by Robin Stanes Micro Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in Partnership with the Earth By Barbara Berst Adams Dairy farming: Dairy farming, Dairy Farm International Holdings, Animal husbandry, Veal, Milking pipeline, Dairy, Dairy product, Dairy...	Mar.18.2009 African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing -- A Review Doris Lessing's African Laughter traces four visits to Zimbabwe over a ten year period (1982 to 1992). Ostensibly she returned to the land of her childhood (and setting of much of The Golden Notebooks) as a journalist, but this book is a reflective memoir...episodic...a crisscrossing travelogue of...
Jan.27.2009 Saving male fertility Fertility issues concerning both men and women have been in the news recently. I have posted few blogs while I've been in the midst of changing computers (my old one gasped its last breath), but I did note an article in the Globe and Mail (www.globeandmail.com)that reported an alarming decline in...	Aug.31.2008 A day at the Fair As August comes to an end, Fair Season begins. I stopped by Northampton's Tri Country Fair today, and shot some pictures . . . The first thing you see upon entering the fairgounds are the tractors. Here's a big Farmall diesel: Farmall was the agricultural tractor division of International...