My Own Farm Girl

There are a lot of firsts when your kids grow up: first words, first steps, first day of school. This summer my daughter Louisiana went to her first summer sleep-away camp. For two weeks she lived in a yurt (a big appeal for Lulu) on a farm near Liberty, N.Y. The campers ate organic food grown on the land and learned the skills every farmer needs to know, like taking care of livestock. There are horses, sheep, barn cats—even a pig that just had piglets. They ask, "How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?" I had trouble getting Lulu to come back from hers!

And David Makes Three by Robin Taunton Dorman Perry, Georgia He was 16, maybe 17, almost grown, but asleep he looked as sweet as a little boy, with his rumpled clothes, his head pillowed on his arms. One problem: He’d fallen asleep in my classroom. On the first day of school, no less. I tapped his shoulder. “Hey, David—rise and shine!” I didn’t want to embarrass him, but I couldn’t let him snooze through eleventh-grade American history, either. Slowly he lifted his head and sat up. “Sorry, Mrs. Dorman. I’m just really tired.”   More.       Spotlight on September/October The angelic crop circle in our “Candid Angels” feature came from Babraham, United Kingdom. But circles of this type appear all over the world. In fact, they’ve become their own art form. Surprisingly, one of the first depictions of something like a crop circle occurred in the seventeenth century where it was called a Mowing-Devil! The picture showed the devil mowing a field with a scythe in a circular direction. The story went that a farmer had refused to pay a mower to do the job, saying he would rather have “the devil himself” mowing his field.   Click here to see more crop circles.