Tuesday, 10/19/10: "Hickory Rain"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/opinion/19tue4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Cleverly couched in an extended, superficially inane description of horses, chickens, and hickory nuts is the news that Verlyn Klinkenborg has gotten divorced. :(

Sunday, 9/26/10: "My Missing Barber"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/opinion/26sun2.html?ref=opinion

Verlyn Klinkenborg's barber retired.

Friday, 9/17/10: "Dark Comes"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/18/opinion/18sat4.html?_r=1

Verlyn Klinkenborg's farm is full of comfortable places -- the hay mound, the chicken house, the beehive -- and he wonders how bees feel.

Thursday, 9/2/10: "Really Looking"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/opinion/03fri4.html?_r=1&ref=editorials

Verlyn Klinkenborg sees a lot of bugs on his farm, but he feels like he doesn't truly see them.

Sunday, 8/1/10: "Death of a Farm"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/opinion/01sun2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Verlyn Klinkenborg is sad because a really old farm went out of business.

Sunday, 7/26/10: "Garden Time"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25sun4.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Special guest post from the blogger's dad!

As near as I can figure, here Verlyn grapples with Minkowski Spacetime.

I nominate his concluding sentence for 2010’s Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Blather award.

Sunday, 6/6/10: "Early and Back Home"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/opinion/06sun4.html?ref=opinion

Verlyn Klinkenborg is back on his farm! It is very early. He listens to the birds, prunes his Parrotia persica, notices a missing piston-shaft on his mower, and looks at a fencing catalog.

Welcome back, Verlyn! We missed you!