The latest on our backyard beds.
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” Mary Oliver I always like to start the year with Mary Oliver and this quote has been haunting […]
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. Anthony Doerr, All The Light We Cannot See Spring is here with all of its unpredictable and sometimes heartbreaking weather. I struggle to embrace the changes and have taken to drinking ginger lemon tea, an ayurvedic […]
CHICKPEA TO COOK A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it is being boiled. Why are you doing this to me? The cook knocks him down with the ladle. Don’t try to jump out.You think I’m torturing you.I’m giving you flavor,So you can mix with spices […]
“A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo Six weeks after moving into a new house with 12 gorgeous raised beds in the backyard and the kind of workshop kitchen I’d always dreamed of, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was standing in […]