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Position: Lee Pitts
They say as you get older birthdays aren't as big a deal as they were when you were young, but I wouldn't know anything about that because I have never had one. A birthday that is. Allow me to...
DATE: Dec. 26, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
He was one of the best teachers I ever had, and yet we never met inside a classroom and he never gave me homework. He wasnt what anyone would call a professor or a doctor, and he probably...
DATE: Aug. 4, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
Ive always been impressed by diversified ag operations, where one brother is the farmer in the family, another is the rancher and the third sibling, usually the youngest, is in charge of the shop....
DATE: Aug. 2, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
Signs of prosperity are starting to show up in cow country, such as...#10 New Wardrobes: At the auction market I saw two old tightwad ranchers wearing blue-blue jeans and walking funny, as if they...
DATE: July 10, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
I like to fix stuff thats broken. In that regard, I should have been a mechanic or a marriage counselor. My antique dealer friends, who bring their broken things to me to fix, say that if you want...
DATE: June 22, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
Remember the bumper sticker that read, He who dies with the most toys wins? It should be, She who dies with the best kids wins. And judging by the kids I meet these days, Id say there are a...
DATE: May 25, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
Recently I heard a couple talking-heads on TV bemoaning the popular sentiment that todays kids graduate from high school, and even college, without ever being taught how to balance a checkbook or...
DATE: March 17, 2012 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
Some suggest that I am living in the past; that I’m too old fashioned. I’m the first to admit that we have made progress and are a lot better at some things than we used to be. As a society, we are...
DATE: Dec. 3, 2011 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
Everyone has their own theory of how we got so messed up in this country. I think you are probably, right this moment, holding the answer in your hands.The downtown of a city near us used to be a...
DATE: Oct. 6, 2011 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
This summer it has become obvious to me that most Americans simply don’t have any idea how to vacation properly. Lugging the family through airport security only to be mistreated in Europe is not a...
DATE: Aug. 16, 2011 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
I have noticed over the years that there are distinct differences between the folks who attend farm sales versus those who go to cattle auctions. For example, at the farm sale, farmers kick tires,...
DATE: June 9, 2011 | COLUMN: It's the Pitts
