Category
Farmette
2 entries
1982
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Friday, January 1, 1982 · Don Krumpos
The Keeping of Things
We had horses my whole childhood. That was one of the facts of the farmstead, as natural to me then as the barn, the garden, the chickens, the machine shed, the old trees. Horses were not decoration. They were part…
1987
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Thursday, January 1, 1987 · Don Krumpos
Tea on the Back Porch
I could tell my father loved my mother dearly. Not because he said it often. Not because they were romantic in any dramatic way. They were not a movie kind of couple. Their love belonged to a different language: rural,…