It’s that time of year again! Drum roll please… my 2024 Rewind, a mixtape of my five biggest hits and five biggest misses. First, the...

I'm learning Choctaw. It's painfully slow, and my brain and tongue have formed an uncooperative alliance against my best intentions, but...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Buddha achieved enlightenment after meditating under the bodhi tree for 49 days. I have been meditating under the hypnotic glow of...

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...

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....

Consider the leaf. Around this time of year (in the Northern hemisphere), a lack of chlorophyll reveals yellow and orange pigments in...

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...

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,...

There are lots of blog posts about building the PERFECT fence, and there are even more articles with titles like, "Ten Reasons Your Fence...

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...