From the Back Forty: Respect and Reflection for Independence Day
In the heartland, Independence Day is marked by more than just flags lining the walkways, dazzling fireworks lighting up the ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Tag: Forty
People who reach their 60s without close friends aren’t socially deficient, they’re often the ones who spent forty years carrying everyone else’s emotional weight and never had room left to be carried
The standard reading of a friendless sixty-year-old is that something went wrong inside them — a personality too prickly, a ...
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From the Back Forty: Trump Celebrates a Birthday as TDS Rages
The heartland braced itself for fielding and responding to all the TDS on social media as many folks cannot grasp ...
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From the Back Forty: Roaches, Bears, and Maine’s Graham Platner
Fans weighed in and were not at all unhappy. Those who do not care for sponsored sports beyond the Pee-Wee ...
From the Back Forty: Memorial for Those Who Paid the Ultimate Price
For days now, heartlanders young and old have quietly lined the streets, adorned businesses, decorated fence posts, and meticulously posted ...
I’m 66 and I spent forty years being extremely good at my job and last spring I realized I had optimized my entire existence for the approval of people I didn’t particularly like
Everyone tells you the same thing about a good career: be excellent, be reliable, be the person they can’t do ...
Sixty Is the New Forty: More Older Americans Are Staying in the Workforce Longer
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