“Mommmmm!” Amalia’s voice issued from the sunporch-cum-temporary kitchen one day earlier this week, in an untempered, raggedy wail. In the living room, I dropped what I was doing (laundry, of…
(post updated in August 2020) (just an fyi) (juuuust for you, gentle reader) (’cause: viruses!) It’s a bumper crop year for elderberries here in Nebraska, it appears. Just this morning,…
Well, well, isn’t it a surprise (actually, kind of a shock) when you raise your precious children and teach them (nearly) everything you know, and you feel pretty good about…
My sister recently gave me a juicer–a rash move on her part–as she was packing up for her move to the country. Poor Anne. She is probably missing her juicer…