Dan Needles Author and Playwright

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OPINION: Today, everyone is an expert but I see red flags unless expert talk includes humility that inspires confidence and trust

December 17, 2021 by Dan Needles

Last month my cardiologist put me on a beta blocker to lower my blood pressure and asked me to take daily readings with the little Chinese-made monitor I keep on my desk. After a week, I was alarmed … [Read more...]

OPINION: Got the supply chain blues that only a guy from Georgia with a garbage can bacon smoker can cure

November 23, 2021 by Dan Needles

This whole past year has given us a steady diet of bad news about supply chain issues, with hungry factories, tight inventories, shipping bottlenecks, resource shortages and thousands of people who … [Read more...]

OPINION: What is it about rural living? Moments of clarity for the exhausted

October 25, 2021 by Dan Needles

I have a friend who moved out of the city with his wife 30 years ago to pursue a career as an editor and a shepherd on a small farm near Peterborough. He was thoroughly urban and, I would assume, … [Read more...]

OPINION: The best driver ever

September 30, 2021 by Dan Needles

Just reading in this newspaper about teenage drivers heading out on the road without licenses because the province can’t deal with the enormous backlog in testing created by the pandemic. My own … [Read more...]

OPINION: The best ideas come from old guys

August 31, 2021 by Dan Needles

Just celebrated my 70th birthday last month. We attach great importance to decades only because of the calculations of some forgotten Byzantine astrologer, not because there is any cosmic significance … [Read more...]

An apology for milk

April 13, 2020 by Dan Needles

Thirty-five years ago when my wife and I started out on this little farm, I milked a dear old nanny goat named Mrs. Trotter twice a day. All four kids were weaned from their mother onto Mrs. T. and … [Read more...]

If you have livestock, you will have dead stock

October 28, 2019 by Dan Needles

It’s been a tough week here at the farm. Bobcat Ransier made several trips out with his backhoe to plant three members of the sheep flock. One expired as a result of misadventure and two others … [Read more...]

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Dan Needles shares laughter yet again … [More...]

Illustration by Shelagh Armstrong

FINDING OUR WAY AROUND THIS NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD

I used to have to drive two hours to … [More...]

cartoon of truck with garbage loaded

The Reformation of the Township Dump

In the days of early settlement, towns … [More...]

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Finding Larkspur – A Return to Village Life

True Confessions From the Ninth Concession

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Wingfield’s World

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With Axe and Flask

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Dan Needles Guest Speaker

Dan is frequently asked to speak at conferences and banquets across the country, making us laugh about the old rural community and the way it meets the modern world.....read more

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Latest Posts

  • Pre-order Dan’s newest book! August 29, 2023
  • FINDING OUR WAY AROUND THIS NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD June 29, 2023
  • The Reformation of the Township Dump March 28, 2023
  • Taking the Learning Curve Too Fast November 28, 2022

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