Good 4th last night. Sat on our ridge with a fire and 70% homegrown food (have never successfully grown marshmallows), just enough breeze and woodsmoke to keep the mosquitoes and…View post

She’s back in the house now, along with the purple bear she calls Star-Bottom.* The table was made in the 1940s by my grandfather for my father. I think his…View post

So much going on right now…writing deadlines, planting, new chicks, getting ready for new pigs, fencing, garden things, fishing with daughters, magazine work, lots of behind-the-scenes stuff to get some…View post

Last night while doing dishes I am listening to an audiobook version of Will Durant’s The Story of Philosophy: the Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers. (I have been…View post

Mom had to work last night (I use the term Mom here in the context that when you have children, there comes a day when you discover you are referring…View post