dave in the shack

On this last day of Illinois’ fiscal year, on the brink of the financial abyss, I have chosen not to rant politically but rather to blog a...

It’s so ironic  in this spring and summer of 2017, when I didn’t take a step on my newly put together left ankle from April 7 th to June 5...

Following up on last Friday’s blog piece, it turns out Stacy Keatch had a heart attack on stage which prevented him from delivering his li...

I still get the Tribune delivered to my door and save clippings from it for blog posts I intend to write.   The shack is filling up with p...

The piece below is a  memory of my Mom in her fifties.  It is taken from my nearly completed and upcoming collection of farm stories.   M...