Shop Notes
"to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody."
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
A Thousand Small Shops
When my family and I moved to our farm, it was an astonishing moment in our lives. We had land. We had gone from a one-acre lot on the edge...
Grasping the Wheel
For years I’ve thought about what was lost when industry left the household. Henry Ford did not just create a better way to build cars. He helped cement a model...
Walking in Their Footsteps
I have spent much of my life reading about the old axe makers. Not just their tools, though I’ve loved those too. Not just the patterns, the stamps, the regions,...
