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A break. No weeding, planting, watering – none of it today. I cast a half hearted glance at a dead strawberry plant and shrug. What...

There are so many punchy jokes I could have made here yesterday, admitting that the reason I was not up for celebrating Mother’s D...

  Well I hope you had a happy Mother’s Day – if you’re not a mother, then you are at least the kid of one and whether you are...

To market, to market ...but let’s skip the pig part. Though, just a couple of days ago, I did notice that our neighbor has this on ...

Hello, morning. Yes, from any vantage point, it is a beautiful time of day. A real show stopper. But I cannot dawdl...

What a day, what a wonderfully bright, pungent with spring, beautiful, sunny day! But we sleep in. At night, Isis was restless,...

I leave my countrified existence and spend the day on campus. If you’re teaching faculty at our Law School, you’ll know why – we ha...

...or helter skelter. Or rush and release. Or back and forth. Call it what you will, the day had no structure, no consistency, no backb...

But wait a minute – aren’t summers free from teaching supposed to have me make progress on my writing project (aka the book )? ...

Waking up to thunder and a downpour. That’s okay, Sunday morning is farmhouse cleaning time. And though I’m not a fan of cleaning...