Talking About Weeds Eating them, too. I miss Roger Welsch's Postcards from Nebraska. Two years into Postcard, Welsch said Kuralt confided, “I thought we’d be lucky to get six stories out of Nebraska.” Ultimately, Welsch said, “we did over 200.” [a student said] "Being in Welsch’s class isn’t like being in a class at all. It’s like being in an audience." I asked a friend, "Is that an insult or a compliment?" "Well, Rog, actually being in your class isn’t like being in a class or in an audience. It’s like being in a congregation." And I thought, Oh, man, that’s it — I’m a preacher, not a teacher. It really is evangelism for me. "How do you make a living writing?" And I said, "Well, Successful Farmer pays me for the article and Essence pays me $2 a word…" And one of them said, "You mean, each time you say — the — they pay you $2?" And Linda said, "Well, he can use the same words over and over, but he has to put them in ...