It's a balmy four degrees this morning. My hens surprised me with fourteen eggs. I thought they had slowed down for the winter. I had...

We have beauty here -- pure, real, natural, unadulterated beauty, unspoiled by neon signs and inhospitable freeways, and overwhelming...

Annie Dillard and Henry David Thoreau would have loved my property. It abounds with nature. I call it an island. And unlike Dillard and...