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 …

Polar Vortex and Zero Waste Grocery Shopping

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 …

February 11, 2018

The Super Bowl occupation is over. All the stages and tents and portable toilets are finally packed up and hauled …