From the Back Forty: Respect and Reflection for Independence Day
In the heartland, Independence Day is marked by more than just flags lining the walkways, dazzling fireworks lighting up the ...
Friday, July 10, 2026
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From the Back Forty: Trump Celebrates a Birthday as TDS Rages
The heartland braced itself for fielding and responding to all the TDS on social media as many folks cannot grasp ...
From the Back Forty: Absurdly Partisan Politics and Unnecessary Men
New Mexico’s bizarre governor, who has jumped through drywall in heels, made the news for kicking men to the curb ...
From the Back Forty: Memorial for Those Who Paid the Ultimate Price
For days now, heartlanders young and old have quietly lined the streets, adorned businesses, decorated fence posts, and meticulously posted ...
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From the Back Forty: Have We Been Bamboozled by the Bedazzler?
Wilson’s minions finally released a statement that makes sense in a variety of ways: She had eye surgery. Well, that ...
I worked forty years as an electrician and the thing nobody warns you about retirement isn’t the boredom, it’s that the silence at 7am on a Tuesday immediately surfaces every feeling I out-worked for four decades
Donna found me crying at the kitchen table at 7:14 on a Tuesday morning, about three weeks into retirement, and ...
I spent forty years believing I was mentally strong because I never broke down — it took one question to make me understand that what I called strength was just a very old, very practiced form of disappearing
“When was the last time you let someone see you struggle?” I sat there in that uncomfortable therapist office chair, ...
I’m 66 and I spent forty years being extremely good at my job and last spring I realized I had optimized my entire existence for the approval of people I didn’t particularly like
Everyone tells you the same thing about a good career: be excellent, be reliable, be the person they can’t do ...
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