Farming, Life lessons, Reflections
By Harold William Thorpe—author of The O’Shaughnessy Chronicles, a farm family’s epic four-book history. I learned life’s most important lessons from family farmers. The farmers I knew best were family members, but those I extol here could be any family-farmer. I...
A Year of Memories, Life lessons, Monday Memories
My wife tossed in her bed; she groaned and cried in pain. She begged for me to get her doctor to come see her. I tried, but her doctor was away, and the other doctors at his clinic refused to do house calls. I pleaded for them to come. They told me to take her to the...
A Year of Memories, Life lessons, Monday Memories
I didn’t appreciate that my older cousins were kind enough to take me fishing with them. I sulked because they didn’t give me a new, shiny reel and rod. My cousins, Dolores and Phyllis Fitzsimmons and Jack Powell, had arranged for the girls to come from their...
