After all the things I’ve made, making friends is still my favorite.
This morning, the horses got out. Someone banged on the door and the dogs went crazy and I went and opened it and the lady told me the horses were out. Great. I pulled on my boots and ran down to the barn for lead ropes and cookies. That’s when I noticed the gate was…
The knitting fairy stopped by and she had my new yarn and teeny tiny circular knitting needles! Socks, here we come! Squee!
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Our beautiful disaster. I give you the strom-pizza: The horror It started this morning with a cheery, “Let’s make pizza for lunch!” John looked dubious, but I was already measuring the flour. I had a funny feeling that I interpreted as, “I used the wrong yeast.” But…
The cherry tomatoes are done messing around. They’re coming for us. Oh the humanity That’s just this morning’s haul. There are half a dozen more that will be ripe by the end of the day. I also picked two raspberries, but my hands were full of tomatoes and too bad they went in my mouth….
My vision to bring our tattered world back into alignment with what’s real I had an experience when I was 15 years old that changed my life. I don’t remember how it happened, but I was asked to be a camp counselor for a group of inner city kids for just one day. That morning,…
And all this time, the garden has been doing its thing. Gardening might be my favorite kind of magic because you do all the work up front. Then, one day, you go outside to enjoy the nice weather and surprise! You have veggies. It’s been raining a lot where we are, and the weather turned…