It’s Springing

March 31, 2019

There is still ice on the lakes and patches of snow in shady corners, but spring is here. Melody Maple …

Literary Chickens

March 17, 2019

What a delight to page through Literary Chickens by Beth Moon! There is nothing literary about the chickens in the …

February 2, 2019

We made it through the Great Polar Vortex of 2019 relatively unscathed. How cold was it in Minneapolis? It was …

December 30, 2018

I could not help myself when the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog arrived. I ordered a few more seeds for …

November 25, 2018

The Dashwoods are two and a half years old now and Marianne has the distinction of being the first of …

November 23, 2018

I did not mean to disappear from blogworld for so long. Between the run-up to November elections—in Minnesota we were …

May 6, 2018

Spring was late and these last two weeks it has been making up for lost time! Instead of the gradual …

April 22, 2018

The sound this week was drip, drip, drip as all the snow from the blizzard started melting. That is the …

April 2, 2018

It’s amazing when a person gets out of the habit of writing nearly almost ever day how difficult it is …