Category: Journ 110
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Swedish Food “Problems”
December 2, 2022 Sweden is commonly associated with meatballs made with beef, pork, allspice, and nutmeg served with lingonberry sauce and savory gravy. The northern-European country-maintained neutrality in both World Wars; being open to those prosecuted during the state of Nazi-Germany while being free from Hitler’s threat of invasion due to Germany’s dependance on Swedish…
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SAMPLE FFA OFFICER NOTEBOOK
I studied the development of excellent programs, lead by recently retired Dr. Frank Hodnett in the AXED 445/545 class at New Mexico State. Our final task was to create a mock FFA Officer/Leadership Team Notebook.
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Cage-Free, but not Free
Imagine driving past rural fields and cows and chickens grazing side by side. The idea of free-range and pasture-fed eggs doesn’t necessarily mean that hens are foraging outside freely. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), hens that are raised outdoors or with access to the outdoors lays free-range/pasture-fed eggs (Barnes 2017). However,…
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Horse-Power Meat?
March 2022 Today, the American idea of a horse is more companion-like than in Mexico, where horsemeat is popular in the deli. Banning commercial horse slaughter has had little effect on the number of American horses being slaughtered. In America’s neighboring countries, Mexico and Canada, horse slaughter is still practiced, and with the practice being…
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A Cow Burps, The World Ends
February 2022 Anyone who has ever experienced flatulence-knows it stinks (literally). Many people would be embarrassed, but our bovine counterparts tend to let it all out. Cattle skeptics are quick to blame cattle-sourced natural gas for the quick deterioration of Earth’s atmosphere and climates. However, does a cow burping really cause icebergs to collapse? As…
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The Children of the COVID
October 2021 In most cases, parents swear to protect their children; and will often stop at nothing to do so. If COVID-19 did anything, it changed the way many parents view parenting and how they protect their kids. As parents and kids spent more and more time together the multitude of diverse parenting styles was…
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Honoring a Chevy Silverado
March 2021 A broad and calloused hand rests atop a black worn-in steering wheel. It’s obvious that this white Silverado is not new. She’s got chrome paint peeling off the bumper, torn seats, and a dashboard protected from the Southwest Colorado sun by stacks of papers, receipts, pictures, and everything else my father has come…
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Inspiration From the Everyday
February 2021 In a way like Catholics gathering for Mass every Sunday; my father, sisters, and I loaded up in a white Chevy Silverado and headed to Bloomfield, New Mexico every Monday night. We left to the Colorado state line at a ritual time of 6:00 every night-to ensure an arrival of 7:30. Behind us…
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POEMS PT. II
February 2021 Good Ole Days Chickens cawing before my eyes open. Groan, rub my eyes. Cover my head with thick down comforter, smelling coffee stains. My mother is gonna wanna kill me when she sees them. First name, middle name. Coffee with just a splash of milk, enough to cool it down for the Chadborn…
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Memoir For A Wholesome Moment
March 2021 Here I sit. Old, polished wood underneath a lacy tablecloth. The soft edges brushing my tucked-underneath-the-table elbows. Miraculously, this tablecloth is untouched by generations of chocolate Texas sheet cakes, hot dogs, baloney sandwiches with Miracle Whip, and lemon sweet tea. I believe that women inherit divine powers as they grow into grandmother-hood. Immortality…
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