THE PARLOR is a series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can find...
Paul: Looks like some kids have messed up the book box again. Any ideas who? Michelle: @Trish Jones – your...
“Bucolia” was shortlisted for the 2024 Best in Rural Writing Contest by judge Dr. Chea Parton. Learn more about the...
You were born with pale blue eyes. You were born with white skin, a palm-tree-shaped birthmark behind your left knee...
It was the second day that Kate and her father walked beans. They had been out since seven a.m. to...
It was a wild summer. As soon as school closed, Wee Stevie went into hospital for surgery, and then his...
It was the farthest north they had ever been. L’il Markie and Frank traveled with their mom to New York...
I spent the next few days kind of mulling about. Trucks came for bales around noon, but I learned to...
That summer my family broke up I stayed on my aunt’s farm and slept in a bedroom with no curtains....
At five-thirty on Friday morning, Bernice had the water and oatmeal boiling, bacon strips laid out in the skillet, and...
Our first summer storm arrived in the wee hours of a warm mid-January morning. As lightning flickered against the curtains...
We’d passed Neary’s millions of times. It was about halfway between me and Tobin’s place outside our village. We’d often...