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By Bryan Golden

We’re home! Yes, home sweet home. How is it possible to have such a wonderful trip, but then be so delighted to be home again? The younger children were not as impressed about being home, so I explained to them that in order for us to go away again, we first need to go home! We all see things through a different set of lenses, right?

Have you ever had the opportunity to can with little helpers? I have. We’ve had so much fun and so many messes.

We just honored the war dead on Monday of this week, and I want to tell you the story of one who didn’t die and how his community is honoring him.

By Christopher Kyer

By Michael Leach

May is almost over, marking another month that will soon be finished and gone.

Summer’s here. The passing solstice a week ago made it official—though given the sweltering weather which preceded this invisible astronomical milestone, many of us would argue the season had already arrived early.

Decades ago, an elderly hill-country stream fisherman named Raleigh Cantrell shared something which has proven more insightful with each passing year.

On a recent morning, I happened to be checking out a certain pool on Greenville Creek when I came across a pair of mulberry trees loaded with ripe fruits.