Trego's Mountain Ear

The Mountain Ear will be taking a temporary pause until the baby is able to come home. We’ll look forward to continuing the Mountain Ear as usual when our family is home. Check for us next Tuesday. Read more

I ran across an article at brownstone.org The title intrigued me – I do wonder what makes one lie greater than another – so I clicked the link. I found out what they considered the greatest lie of covid – but I am more interested in their linking aspirin with the death rate of Spanish Read more

The other day, I dragged the body of last Summer’s smallest fawn away.  She may have weighed 40 pounds.  As winter came in she had been in company with her mother – a young doe in great shape – and her grandmother.  Grandma was an old doe who didn’t look like she had a chance Read more

Some prayer lists have better records than others.  Back when I went through cancer treatment, I had been making presentations across the state, and kept finding out that churches I never attended – may have never driven past – were adding me to their prayer lists.  Remember – my specialty was demography.  I quizzed everyone Read more

A while back, I wrote about the hypothesis that car seat laws actually reduce the number of children, such that there may have been considerably more children not born due to car seat laws than have been saved by them. Are bicycle safety laws similar? Quite possibly. In what appears to potentially be another case Read more

It’s the gun I have most frequently traded off or sold – only to buy or assemble another one later on.  Now, my carbine is a post-war manufacture, an Iver Johnson built in Arkansas, back in 1984.  As you will note from the photo below, others have shared my appreciation for the carbine.  If you Read more