I’m doing something hard. Sure, that’s subjective, “hard” can be many things and I have the recent perspective of knowing a young man who became paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his mountain bike. That’s really hard. But my life is the life I’m living, and I can only know what it is like from these shoes. In…
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Is Chicken Herding a Profession?
Is there such a thing as a professional free-range chicken herder? I could be that. I should be busy packing or washing dishes or doing any number of chores, but I’m mesmerized by the browns, yellows, whites, and blacks fluttering among the mondo grass, pecking at every plant as a toddler tries to gum every object. They don’t yet know…
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Why I’ll Be Writing About Chickens
With the price of things rising, I thought I’d do some research into how to feed chickens naturally, or at least, less expensively. First, an explanation: feeding chickens seems an odd thing to post on this old dusty site that I thought I’d one day use for writing. But it’s here, it’s built, and I need to write again. Another…
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