Mike Keeler

MIKE KEELER: All Hail The 50,000!

That’s a very rough estimate of American colonial soldiers who were killed, died from disease, or died as prisoners of war, in the struggle to gain independence from Britain,...

MIKE KEELER: 52 Trees – No more, No Less

Driving through town today, all the yards were in full bloom and everybody looks like...

MIKE KEELER: No No No No No! (Or as they say in Spanish, ¡NO!)

It's Friday, the end of the week, so maybe you're thinking you can let yourself...

MIKE KEELER: Honor The Herb . . .

With Earth Day coming up, I scrolled through the archives looking for past stories about...

MIKE KEELER: Welcome To Taxation Nation

You’re probably pretty grumpy right about now. And I’m here to explain why. The Founding Fathers...

Mike Keeler: And So We Come to The Dead of Winter . . .

Most folks in my generation who grew up near New England or the Rockies – I can claim a bit of both – were...

MIKE KEELER: A Very Spicy Tale

We’re almost to the dead of winter. It’s time for a spicy tale. It starts one day long ago, on an island off the coast...

MIKE KEELER: Colorful Agrarian Symbol or Sign of The Witch?

OK, let's put Halloween behind us, enough with all that Druid-inspired mumbo-jumbo . . . Or . . . Take a drive through Pennsylvania farm country....

MIKE KEELER: A Matter of One Simple Word

On a grim morning such as this, perhaps folks in England can take heart that today is also an anniversary. 217 years ago, England was...

MIKE KEELER: Getting Out (of) The Vote

We Americans hold these truths to be self evident: that government of the people, by the people, and for the people is the best...

Woollies Are On The Move Again . . .

On a recent walk with Asa the Pandemic Pup, we noticed the woollies are on the move again. This time of year, armies of black-and-brown-banded...