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This week’s article contains very few of my own words. On Saturday afternoon I read the following Facebook post by Stacey Sanchez, who wrote...

Question: When my children don’t like what’s offered for school lunch, I pack a sandwich and they carry it in a brown paper bag....

This is a great time of year to scout soybean fields to see which weeds broke through your herbicide program and consider what changes...

The foreign word in the headline is German for “homework,” and I regularly terrorized my students with the entire phrase. Truthfully, however, homework and...

How I wish George Garrett’s words “as soft and murmurous as wings” were describing my voice … to have my tone considered “dulcet” …...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics this year. Earlier in the summer I read so much about Zika, polluted water, street crime, venue readiness, and...

Question: I occasionally like to make my own nut butter by grinding nuts in a food processor and adding some coconut oil until it...

For sixty some years of my life, the best day of any year was the first day of school. I enjoyed holidays, but the...

Question: My son, who is 11, says that since butter is made from milk, it should be counted as a dairy food. I know...

An Indiana couple who wrote to me a few weeks ago has experienced the ups and downs of Obamacare, and they wanted me to...