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- The Animal in the Yard - Creative Nonfiction
My father used to be a farmer “Subsistence farmer,” he would clarify if anyone got overly excited about this history His type of farming was the kind where you grew what you ate and were lucky if you had anything left over to sell at the market for luxuries like sugar and salt
- Iyabo Is Yoruba for “The Mother Has Returned” - Creative Nonfiction
Fortunately, a supportive colleague from the Organic Farming Research Foundation donated the buckwheat seeds Despite the challenges, Sharadi was hopeful: “I can see us, even with no funding, getting one fall crop off of this thing that was blessed by mother nature’s irrigation, if nothing else ”
- Immortal Ogallala - Creative Nonfiction
Farming technology—center-pivot sprinklers, GPS-controlled tractors, Roundup Ready seed—has decreased the job market Given such limited opportunity, only one of my ten cousins has returned to the area to work
- Charging Lions - Creative Nonfiction
Much of the nightmare of animal factory-farming stems from a systematic refusal to treat animals like feeling, thinking creatures, a refusal essential to the system’s continuation
- Rebecca v. Mr. Wonderful - Creative Nonfiction
Through binoculars, I watch my new across-the-street neighbor, Mr Wonderful, take out the trash He lugs, jerks, drags and kicks the floppy bags down his dirt driveway His slipper tears a hole in one of them, and a buffet of stink dribbles out
- Surviving - Creative Nonfiction
In a recent meeting with a financial planner, my existence was parsed in terms of how much money I’d need to navigate the life expectancy and finances chart Though I am over seventy, the idea of “years left” slammed into my solar plexus, as if I were receiving news of my mortality for the first time
- Two Mississippi - Creative Nonfiction
The postal committee decided to put the farming scene on a stamp that would be used more often than the $2 stamp, hence the transposition of 2-cent and $2 denominations The committee also corrected an error in the original design
- Rogers Brew - Creative Nonfiction
Brewing fine beer is Roger’s contribution to improving the human condition Roger totes around with him a hose that extends from one end of the brewing room to the other He appears happier than a normal person might with the fact that the head on his go-everywhere hose rotates 360 degrees
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