Sometime in early January, we began to feel overwhelmed by the winter doldrums. Later in the month we grasped for an explanation of why we were feeling this way. We observed that since Thanksgiving, we had not ventured more than 1.5 miles from our house. A change of scenery would be good. Just a weekend someplace else. It doesn’t have to be far, but it should be someplace we enjoy going. Read on
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference 2010
The Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference is the largest gathering of its kind in the United States. We became aware of it in the early ’90s, when the organic farming movement was just beginning to expand beyond its narrow “counter-culture” niche. Today organic farming is big business, and some of the biggest food corporations are trying to muscle in on the fastest-growing sector of the food business. Read on
What Does This Mean?
During the years of the Bush/Cheney regime, many people displayed the American flag upside-down as a signal of distress.
Knowing that, how do we interpret this:
A Green Bay Packer flag flies upside-down on a late February afternoon in La Crosse.
I mean, weren’t they 11-6 this season? WTF?