Rural Delivery

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 2002. All rights reserved.
There’s a place down by the river where the bank is wide and sandy. It overlooks a low-lying rock dam over which the river spills. Behind that dam, the water is flat and calm — perfect for skipping stones across.
My son stops here every time we come [...]

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.
Fatherhood ages a man; parenthood, in general, does the same.
Before we became parents, my wife and I lived somewhat outside of time. Days and years went by, seasons came and passed, and we went about the business of pursuing degrees and careers oblivious to the passage of [...]

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.
Plants get sick. They develop soft rot and leaf spot and cankers of all sorts. They suffer ulcerous lesions, mildews, and various wilts and scabs.
Apple trees get fire blight, which blackens their leaves and twigs and is sometimes fatal. Potatoes are susceptible to late blight, as 19th [...]