Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apple. - Sherwood Anderson Journalism without a moral position is impossible. -Marguerite Dur...

It is the waking that kills us. - Sir Thomas Browne M y first sense memory of Mount Carroll is the sound of my friend and current host (al...

I was drinking in a town I'd never heard of in a bar that I wasn't familiar with when I overheard a group of men talking down bar f...

B rightly colored plastic eggs and fresh squirrel traps are hanging from the trees, blowing carefree in the breeze while the school kids, on...

I keep beer out on the covered front porch. It’s winter in Northwest Illinois and the relentless cold makes for great refrigeration. My wif...