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Flowers are like crying infants -- it's a bit of a guessing game when things aren't quite right. Most of us don't have the need...

Coordinating tasks today is a challenge. The easy part is early morning: letting the chickens out doesn't vary. I'm up, they're...

My older girl and I are strolling through the Farmers Market downtown. I turn to her and ask -- do you notice anything about my nose? She ...

New Glasses I've been dealing with eye glass prescriptions in the way that a kid might deal with carrots and celery packed into her l...

There comes an evening when you are so tired that thoughts stray only toward the couch where you will soon position yourself and, if all go...

We have birches. We have maples. We have enormous willows, we have pines of all sizes. We have more box elders than I could count. We have ...

Can it be that I am becoming too tied to the farmette? That May, June -- will forever become months when my imagination doesn't run pas...

A quiet day. Hot to start with, even in the early morning. And so we both begin outdoor work at 6, thinking that by noon, we'll ...