I mentioned earlier this month that my friend Katie Pinke in North Dakota was doing a series of posts on women in agriculture. I was honored to be asked to participate in the series. includes an introduction by Katie that really grabs my heart and head. I wanted to post a quick stub here so you can go read the… Read More
Are Paper Business Cards Relevant in Today’s Digital World?
I read this piece by the Atlantic “The Business Card Is Dying, Part 3,658” after having some conversations with people about business cards. Business cards took hold of me early in life. In fact, while I was in graduate school, I decided to study the then Soviet press. I spent some time in Volgograd, Russia visiting with editors of newspapers. Although… Read More
Proud of My Role in Agricultural Communications
Thought some of you may enjoy seeing this guest post I wrote for my good friend Ryan Goodman over on Agriculture Proud. He’s been doing a series of posts on the different kinds of careers within agriculture people are proud of having. This is a glimpse at the post but I encourage you to visit the Ag Proud site so… Read More
Social Media Hero, Farmer & Blogging Coach Judi Graff aka @farmnwife
A lot of the people who are involved in agriculture and who write blogs will probably recognize the social media hero I want to highlight this week. It’s Judi Graff aka @FARMnWIFE. There are a lot of reasons she is a social media hero to various people, but I get to make the list so we’ll focus on my reasons…. Read More
A Fantastic Traditional English Pub Near Reading
I had one heckuva flight over to England for my vacation in December. We had lots of problems, delays for mechanical and then they thought they had it fixed. We took off and an hour or so out, we turned back for Atlanta due to mechanical issues. We were met by ambulances, fire trucks and a nearly empty terminal. That… Read More
Lots of Stuff to do on a Family Dairy Farm
I have to tell you that my visit to Ray-Lin Dairy recently was shaped a lot by Ray’s son, 11-year-old Bryson (remember him from the Flat Stanley series?). It was the weekend so Bryson wasn’t at school. He was at home so he was having what sounded like a bit of a typical day in the life for him, but… Read More