How Hogs, Dogs, and Dirt Taught a POW’s Family to Live
The new book, The Story Farm, is now available.
The Story Farm
Have stressful current events made you wish for a calmer time? Did the pandemic upend your lifestyle so you wish for “the good old days” that weren’t that long ago? Is it hard to tell the difference between news and real truth? Is it overwhelming when media screams for your attention and strives to tell you what to think?
We need a reminder that real life-lessons are not learned from a screen, but from the people close to us and the events we personally experience. It’s the things families do together that teach us how to live.
Join author Dean Wickert and his siblings as they learn about diligence, faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly affection, and love.
The Story Farm is an inspirational collection of stories about lessons the author and his siblings learned from their parents and the other inhabitants of a farm in the flat lands of northwestern Indiana. While some of the stories are hilarious and some are more thoughtful, all the lessons are written on blackboards of sandy loam fields, straw bales, and hog barns.
Read an excerpt
Read an excerpt from The Story Farm.
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Author Dean Wickert
Dean Wickert grew up on a farm in northwest Indiana, where he learned the priority of family life and the usefulness of science. He and his wife, Lynn, have five children and 11 grandchildren (so far).
They teach practical family life skills from the beginning of the Bible, and inspire people to learn life lessons from every situation. They love to encourage other parents to raise their children for eternity.
You can read Dean’s blog on this website, or see the links on the Families from the Beginning Facebook page.
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Here’s another short excerpt:
The two parallel ruts in the sand were deeper at the end nearest the corner fence post of the 4-H pen. But the post was not leaning and did not have any scrapes or gouges. The width of the ruts and the distance between them indicated something smaller than a pickup truck, but obviously not a motorcycle, and the rear tires did not have wide field treads so it was not a tractor. The length of the ruts proved the approach had been fairly fast, and the spacing of the ruts on either side of the post meant it was nearly head-on. This evidence, gathered at a glance as he walked from the farrowing barn to the 4-H pen, clearly showed Augie that the vehicle was one of the two Volkswagen Beetles owned by his sons, and that I was probably the driver because neither of the Beetle owners was on the farm that day.
At dinner that night, Augie casually mentioned, “Someone needs to slow down if they’re driving cars around the hog pens.”
That was all I needed.
From “Ruts in the Sand” a chapter in “the Story Farm”
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