The Ones Who Take Care of Us
I'm learning Choctaw. It's painfully slow, and my brain and tongue have formed an uncooperative alliance against my best intentions, but...
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Aug 22
August
I was born on the mountain and the mountain is in me. It is in August, last liminal flicker of summer, that I feel the coolness of the...
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Jul 24
A Hole in the Wall
The wheel of the year continues to turn and for me, 2024 is not slowing down one bit. I have been working on something so huge, so...
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Jun 28
Mama Tried
Today is my mother's birthday; she would be 65. It's strange how a birthday keeps going on without you. Of all the ways we could measure...
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Jun 8
Beard Wax & a Vape Charger
It's been another busy month. Market season is in full swing while summer thrums in all of nature's chords. From now until the first...
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Apr 28
Pink Moon
I can't remember having a busier month. So busy that I'm almost a week late on my full moon post. So busy that the south yard resembles...
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Mar 25
Worm Moon Update
I know that the Worm Moon is named for the helpful critters churning around in the soil after winter's break, but I can't help but think...
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Feb 25
Cow Vs. Cop
I couldn’t see why the truck in front of me stopped well past the school but before the Piggly Wiggly. I was driving to my Grandmother’s...
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Jan 25
Wolf Moon
Over the past few years, I've been working on my relationship with the moon. I realize this is a potentially absurd sentence, but I am...
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Jan 11
Enlightenment
The Buddha achieved enlightenment after meditating under the bodhi tree for 49 days. I have been meditating under the hypnotic glow of...
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Dec 21, 2023
2023 Roundup - Part 2
And now, for defeats. The choices that, like a punch in the tit, left a lasting mark on both my body and psyche. Mistake #1 - Making...
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Nov 13, 2023
2023 Roundup - Part 1
This is the 2023 roundup of my biggest wins and biggest boneheaded moves of the gardening year as decided by me, in no particular order....
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Oct 20, 2023
Overthinking Compost
Consider the leaf. Around this time of year (in the Northern hemisphere), a lack of chlorophyll reveals yellow and orange pigments in...
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Jul 23, 2023
Nice Melons
The truth is, growing food is boring. I know, I know, now I have to surrender my gardener’s card. My composting privileges are revoked. I...
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Jul 3, 2023
Summertime Blues
My July garden is a disaster. There is no other way to put it. The winter dreams and lists, culled from seductive color seed catalogs,...
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Jun 8, 2023
The Good Enough Fence
There are lots of blog posts about building the PERFECT fence, and there are even more articles with titles like, "Ten Reasons Your Fence...
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May 19, 2023
A Tale of Two Roses
To the left, a Knockout rose, in the middle and on the right, heirloom cultivars. I bought a house without going inside of it and that is...
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