The Village Idiot

Jack Deatheridge

• 2024
  • 2025 Emmitsburg
  • Seeds & such
  • Bread and circuses
  • Looking back to see the future
  • It's just business
• 2023
  • Shy of 70
  • Every now and again
  • The dirt
  • The Worst Insult
  • The Rumor Mill
  • The Useless Eaters
  • Water, water, waterrr!
  • August already
  • Next year…
  • Rolling into October
  • Eat the bugs!
• 2022
  • COVID, getting it is no joke
  • Set 'em up Joe
  • The pencil
  • 2022 community garden
  • Debut 149
  • Facebook deleted
  • Pain
  • Hard times acoming?
  • Down a rabbit hole
  • Operation Mato Grosso
  • Anno COVID
• 2021
  • Entropy
  • How not to garden
  • Chasing a Hollyhock
  • The state mandates (second verse)
  • Church Of The Falling Rain
  • As I See Religion
  • Turning 67
  • Settling into me dotage
  • Solanum Lycopersicum
  • Death of the space opera
  • The Vulgarians
  • Sophisticated palate
• 2020
  • 2020 Youth Garden
  • The end of January
  • Farch, the gods are howling
  • Wuhan Flu
  • Quick breads
  • The Conquest of Liberty Mountain
  • Gumbo Jumble
  • August is naptime
  • The blizzard of ‘67
  • When you get older
  • Enough!
• 2019
  • Hot doggin’ recipes
  • Fascination
  • 2019 youth garden?
  • Poverty in Emmitsburg
  • Bureaucracy
  • Reflections on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11
  • Everything in its place
  • Basic Bread, A Library Lecture
  • State mandates
  • What's a living wage?
  • Baseball
• 2018
  • Magic, music & books mix in Emmitsburg
  • Brain Spasms
  • The price of idiocy (about $9.00)
  • Reaching the next level
  • Tattoo Who?
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • Bobble-heading through life
  • Clutter
  • My garlic guru
• 2017
  • Lookit here
  • If I had a hundred dollars
  • My qualifications to be Mayor
  • Why I can’t be Mayor
  • Stupid Good Bakery
  • As the machines roared
  • Fishing with a tattoo
  • Life after the factory
  • This retirement thang
  • I've been wrong before
  • 2017 garden
  • The M-65
• 2016
  • And then there was Denver
  • Finally, Sort of
  • Overcoming myself
    • part 2
  • Taneytown Auto Parts Inc.
  • The Emmitsburg Rifle
  • Quality Tire Service – none better
  • Zurgable's
  • That damned library!
  • In search of pizza
  • Art(ist)
  • Wisdom is where one finds it
• 2015
  • History, Who Keeps it for Us?
  • Harvest
  • Ah November
  • Merry Christmas
• 2014
  • A low wage slug speaks up!
  • Winter Babbling
  • The Village Idiot - This delightfully snowy winter
  • Passing through an opossum
  • Good enough
• 2013
  • Mom’s homemade bread
  • I got a recipe for beer bread
  • Russian Flour
  • 40 Years in the Hole
  • Before You Go to War, Know Your Enemy
  • Before You Go to War, Know Your Enemy - Part 2
  • Before You Go to War, Know Your Enemy - Part 3
  • Heroin In Our Community - Part 4
• 2012
  • Why I hate the city...
  • Educating the unenlightened
  • Wild Wines
  • I allowed I’s a Pagan
  • Jack and the bean stalk
  • If I should ever grow up
  • Village Idiot Garlic
• 2011
  • I wanted to be a millionaire
  • Hunting for answers to half-formed questions
  • On English as Second Language
  • Jack - do you actually know how big an acre is?
  • I can’t dance & it’s to wet to plow
  • Kids and Seeds
  • They Don't Work Like They Used Too!
  • Mary, Mary, quite contrary…
  • Recording the Garden
  • The tiller won't till anymore
• 2010
  • T'is the season of the liars
  • Hope and Change
  • What's wrong with our schools
  • Some days the future appears so clear
  • When the money runs out