The other morning I realized I had a problem.

I like to spend some quiet time with God in the mornings. Even though I live in a city, I have one of the best places in the world to do this (I wrote about my back deck in my book, Our Father’s World – check it out). I can look out over a restored prairie green space, I have two bird feeders set up that normally attract fifteen to twenty sparrows and finches in the early hours (and a couple of squirrels). Southern Wisconsin in the summer time has weather to die for – this week has been low humidity and in the seventies early in the morning. And I have a cup of coffee that is good enough to be served in heaven. Settle down, open my bible – and… Read more »

Here’s a fun hint if you find you missed the Farmer’s Market this week and would like to know what produce might be from local suppliers.

I just found this out from the Produce manager at Woodmans West, my “local” supermarket:  Explaining to me that it would be really difficult to put signs up telling us what produce might be from a local farm – the main reason being that this week lettuce be local, next week it might have come from California (because nearby farms didn’t have enough supply) – but, he said, you can tell what we’ve bought from local farms: Read more »