The start of my junior year was hopeful. I had worked all summer building high steel grain elevators. Everyone knows that high steel is dangerous but in those days the contractors hired young farm kids who would do anything to make $5.00 and by anything I mean climbing, working, welding…

Chapter 7 ~ Rite of Passage ~The Car There is nothing, nothing more important than having your own car. Just know that. The world’s deepest divide is between those teenage boys who have a car and those miserable, hopeless failures who do not have a car. To have a car…

All of us could see the hand writing on the wall. We had grown more corn than the market wanted to buy and gone into debt for fertilizer, seed, fuel and equipment to do it. No one had enough to pay the banks back so the Selling Out sales began…

Chapter One — Dirt Born — I was dirt born the son of a share crop farmer in 19 an 47 in an age that was before everything, really. Life on the farm was full of hard drama; that would be a combination of hard work, high hopes and endless conflict with nature, up close and…

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Marijuana and how the Democrats can win the midterm elections. Marijuana policy can determine the midterm elections and which party controls the House and Senate. There are seven battleground states where the contests will be close, expensive, and deeply psychological. Politicians will be looking for any way to differentiate themselves…