Some of you fell through the cracks. Subscribers that is and I apologize for any missing notifications. I’ve only been posting about once weekly, so if you’ve m...Read More
On the weekend I went in search of signs of life or spring. On this day, for the past few years, cherry blossoms already emerged pink and cheery. Not this year. It’s as if Mother Nature did no...Read More
March 22 is #WorldWaterDay and I’m joining World Vision to spread awareness for people around the globe who need safe water sources. Despite impressive gains made over the last decade, 748 milli...Read More
You know things aren’t okay when it’s 3 am and I’m racing to get a post up. After an excruciating day of slow and crashing computers I called my host, Godaddy and apparently they are...Read More
The stone garden muse has been literally snowed under and so have I: on every level. Buried with work and piles of papers, laundry and snow growing is this winter’s metaphor. It was time to dr...Read More
Can you remember the smell of the perfume your grandmother or mother wore? How about the scent your baby’s or cat’s head? It’s all in your head. That’s how you can access you...Read More
Here we go again. Groundhog Day like most holidays has pagan roots. It the old days badgers were used as weather prognosticators while celebrating Imbolc, the pagan Celtic holiday marking the midway p...Read More
We were late putting away the lawn furniture this year. So late we figured why not leave a couple of chairs to measure snow accumulation. For fun. This was sn...Read More
The holiday spirit was being siphoned off by my inner Grinch. Not that there is anything wrong with being a Grinch. It beat smiling a phony ho, ho, ho and isn’t it the most wonderful time of the...Read More
Whoops, I’m back from what feels like death, a rabbit hole, a hamster wheel on steroids. In six years of blogging this has never happened to me. Sure it might be 3 am...Read More