Prairie Garden

Little Popple-de-Polly Said, See my new dolly! With her beautiful, pop-open eyes. But I can't make her speak, Though I've tried for ...

Brassavola nodosa 'Little Stars'; nestled with our sprouting seed potatoes. This little sucker becomes fragrant at night, and fill...

How is this possible? The baby is sleeping. The 3 year old has been looking at books or playing quietly by himself for an HOUR AND A HALF. H...

For those unaware, Diego has been obsessed with Peter Pan for some time now. Most of our afternoon "Special Time" play-time follow...

There is something about chilled air - drizzly rain - the smell and feel of sticky sap from fir or spruce - and the sight of split level ent...

Since recommencing menstruation , I have been charting using Taking Charge of Your Fertility as a tool. It is the most amazing thing - to b...

Au fond du temple saint with David Byrne and Rufus Wainwright

Thanks Grandma O. -- he loved it!!!

I am now going through my daybooks from early marriage; and sweet william! it is so enjoyable to peruse our lives through my written word. ...

I laid in bed this morning with the warm glow of the sunrise shyly peaking through my window, hearing birds twittering in the trees for the ...

Our emotional vacation continues, though now it has morphed into a more intense and long-lasting reconnection - a meeting of mind and spiri...

We ordered our vegetable seeds through Seed Savers Exchange this weekend. Looking through the pictures and imagining the bounty is a mouth-...

Walking Iris aka Apostle Plant aka Neomarica I love having tropical houseplants. They usually bloom when the soul and mind need it most - t...

In a tearful response to an impassioned rebuke from his mother this afternoon, for poking his little brother in the face with a pointy toy, ...

Or present , as it were. After stampeding through my college daybooks , I decided to review my high school journals as well. What an interes...

The sloughing of my uterine wall has recommenced. I could tell that things were changing, but I wasn't exactly sure what was going on un...

I never followed up on the Valentine Spaghetti Meal , our Friends of the Library's first fundraiser. It went well. We had 100 or so peop...

Your Long Journey from Raising Sand with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss has shot up to #3 on my iTunes account after a morning binge on en...

I have been on what we have dubbed an "emotional vacation" for the past two weeks with Squeeze, my main squeeze, my only squeeze,...