I haven’t had a good veggie garden in a while. Two years ago we planted celery and tomatoes and squash. The garden’s mood went up and down with the sun, and we nibbled on pinkish celery while fighting off giant green caterpillars, throwing them into the park behind our home as an offering for the […]
I had a lot of deep thoughts about traditions and memories at the holidays. Plans and hopes run awry and the agony of wanting to fulfill our own memories but the pain that lingered behind sometimes made them too salty to bear. I have spent the last couple holiday seasons in transition, and […]
We had walked into the florist the day before, light hearted, each with a request for the bouquet. My youngest spoke clearly, strongly, a voice that had still been a tiny peep when she heard it last naming the last flower on the list I had mentioned. The same as our dog’s name, a […]
I heard the scariest statistics in the last week. First, was one I overheard on a podcast, that the topsoil on the Earth has a time limit. The UN predicts we had 60 years of topsoil left before it was gone. Note, I said HAD because that was 2014. So when my children have children, […]
Skip buying lunch for a few days and donate the money to a local cause. Leave the quarter in the shopping cart when you leave Aldi. Add an extra couple of bucks to the tip. Keep Ziploc bags with granola bars and sanitary items to hand out to the homeless at the end of […]
