Just brush it off? What exactly did he think he had splashed through – powdered sugar?

Is a prayer sincere if it starts with, “We are so thankful for the moisture we have received, and we know we need every drop of it, and we are not complaining, but maybe in passing you might want to know that we can’t get into the field to do any fieldwork, so uhhh ... just mentioning it in case it affects your eternal plans. Amen.”

People sometimes ask me what it is that I do all day. To be honest, I’d like to know myself. Whatever it is, I’m sure not getting it done, that much I know. Still, I wonder what people imagine I’m up to when they ask that question.

Did you know that farmers don’t need pain medication? When they are as grumpy as @#$%!, it is simply because you are irritating, not because they are in any discomfort whatsoever.

I like to ask David questions I already know the answers to. It’s my own private game of “How Well Do You Know Dave.” I happen to be the world champion, and I score pretty high most of the time, though every once in a while, he’ll throw me a ringer.

Dating holds some unique challenges for farm girls. Of course, I realize dating isn’t all peaches and cream for anyone, and I fully support the right of every single person to experience their own brand of dating agony.

Whatever happened to the grandmas that prepared their grandchildren to be soft but tough and kind but not taken advantage of? We need more of those women today – women like Grandma Hartman.