The Cozy Corner by Steve Nauman

Growing up in the country with dairy farmers for neighbors, it seemed like at least once a summer our large rain-soaked lawn would suddenly be full of cows that had somehow got out of their pasture! After helping to get them back where they came from, it was my job to “clean-up” the evidence left…

When I started school at five years old, I soon noticed a man working constantly inside and outside of the school building. This man looked like he really liked his job, and I could even tell that he was very good at everything he did! Although I didn’t know who this man was, I figured…

We have an orchard on our little farm. We have several different types and varieties of fruit trees, that have taken over 25 years to get to the level of maturity they are at now – yet we are still never guaranteed a crop of fruit! Once in a while we will get a late…

There are many different ways of learning things, such as reading about something, which is the main thing I first did when it came to my favorite hobby, gardening! Then of course we have to do more than just read about something, we have to start (at least in my case) experimenting with the things…

I’m glad that I’ve been able to make “choices” as I travel on this journey we call life! Now of course, early in life our parents, almost nonstop it seems at times really help with “teaching” us about making good choices. Hopefully you had parents who helped you with that…..I know I sure did! One…

Today I’m going to use a story from my favorite old TV show, “The Andy Griffith Show” and contrast it with things I’ve seen! The episode from the TV show was called “A Medal For Opie”. The setting is that the town of Mayberry is hosting a special kids day, filled with different athletic events…

Where I grew up in those rolling hills of upstate New York, most of my childhood friends lived on dairy farms. When it wasn’t chore time, a dairy farm can be a place of great adventure for kids to play! But, when chores need to be done, all play would stop and everyone had a…

In 1976 while I was working full time in my father’s general store, I learned a lot with my eyes and my ears-and that’s where today’s story comes from. It was a weekday mid afternoon, fairly quiet in that country general store. My father was in the city with the truck buying inventory for the…

My mother always took her job as a mom seriously (7 children it was a job). I can remember before I was old enough to go to school, when sometimes in the morning she would read stories or even poems to me after my older siblings had left for school. She also invented clever ways…