This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on January 25, 2006 Linda Chapman is a farmer, and her body telegraphs her outdoor life from the moment you meet her. She is tall, lithe, and strong, with her streaky gray-blond hair pulled back from a face deeply tanned in summer and her blue eyes…

This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on January 11, 2006 I am the daughter of a woman for whom life holds no greater culinary pleasure than a shrimp – butterflied, battered, and crisply fried. Add a wedge of lemon, a little tartar sauce and some fried potatoes and my mom makes little…