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Staring at chickensnew

The simple pact you make with chickens is that, if you give them fresh water, some scratch corn and a few greens every day, they'll give you eggs.
INDY Week  |  John Valentine  |  05-20-2011  |  Culture
Tags: Raising Chickens

Ballad of a Trucknew

Maybe it was time to get that new truck. It was a crisis of faith. When was the right time? How was I to know?
INDY Week  |  John Valentine  |  04-13-2011  |  Commentary
Tags: personal reflections, trucks

Freeze the gamenew

Summer is an assemblage of unscripted experiences, and there's generally still daylight when it's all over. Or so I'd hoped.
INDY Week  |  John Valentine  |  08-26-2010  |  Culture
Tags: Columns

Best Books From North Carolinanew

Chosen as best book of the year is Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy Tyson's detective-story record of the racially tense summer of 1970 in Oxford, N.C.
INDY Week  |  John Valentine  |  01-07-2005  |  Nonfiction
Tags: yearinreview 2004, Various Authors, 2004's Best Books, Henry Marrow, Karen Barker's Sweet Stuff, Moreton Neal's Remembering Bill Neal

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