When I was a child I always wanted to be a veterinarian. I loved animals. It didn’t really matter the…
Thomas GoodhartOctober 31, 2013
In 1777 Frederick the Great sent one of his Prussian officers, General Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, to the newly…
Thomas GoodhartOctober 14, 2013
Tom is otherwise engaged today and therefore, introduces his friend and colleague the Rev. Blaine Crawford who has written today's…
Thomas GoodhartSeptember 19, 2013
I like a clean desk, and today is a clean desk kind of day. A day when you take all…
Thomas GoodhartSeptember 5, 2013
Martin Luther is attributed as saying, "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would…
Thomas GoodhartAugust 22, 2013
outside of Indianola, Iowa The great American ecologist (and forester, conservationist, writer, wildlife biologist) Aldo Leopold once said, “To those…
Thomas GoodhartAugust 8, 2013
Two weeks ago here at the twelve I commended a National Geographic story of people making hay in Romania and…
Thomas GoodhartJuly 25, 2013
The July issue of the National Geographic magazine has an incredible article about the haymaking practiced in the small villages…
Thomas GoodhartJuly 11, 2013
My parents divorced when I was about thirteen or so. Probably should better recall when exactly—it certainly was a rough…
Thomas GoodhartJune 27, 2013
