-Isms: Views on life in rural America

I’m a firm believer that it takes a village to raise a child.

This week, I’m a firm believer that it takes a village to get the paper from InDesign to our printer in Iowa to your mailbox or vendor, if you aren’t a subscriber.

By the time you’re reading this column, I should be home, recuperating from hip replacement surgery. The sciatic pain I’ve experienced for the past 18 months turned into a painful hobble that, eventually, I could not stand anymore (literally). I visited an orthopedic surgeon, who produced physical evidence that half of the right ball joint had deteriorated. He gave me two...