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The Sunrise, the Sunset, and the Long Space In Between

09.19.2011 · Posted in Day To Day, Depression, gardening

It started here, and I’ve been walking in the subdivision across the street every morning at sunrise ever since. Then this happened, and it caused me to climb out of bed one day and make pizza with my kids and I’ve been slowly transitioning back into mealtime ever since. Then I bought bento boxes for my ...

garden garden how do you grow

03.04.2009 · Posted in ailments, gardening

As it turns out, I can grow things other than babies! During this two weeks of intense illness, of children with fevers for days on end and parents who can do little more than doze on the couch holding them, my seedlings have sprouted! I’d almost forgotten about last week when I had a decent ...

It’s July and Hell is Hot

07.08.2008 · Posted in Day To Day, gardening

Why didn’t anyone warn me, when I was blathering on about the meditative benefits of gardening, planting 400 hundred seedlings spread out all over an acre of yard that July would come? Oh, July, how I hate you with your 85+ morning temps, and your hundred degree afternoons. How I hate the way you wilt ...

hello, my name is boring

05.18.2008 · Posted in Day To Day, gardening

Hi! Have you been dying to know what my garden is like now all these weeks after I threw plants in the ground and crossed my fingers? No? Maybe you’d like to hear about my minute by minute love/hate relationship with my teenager, who after following me around all day because she was lonely, just ...