Follow me Sometimes you go through a dry stretch, with more hard things happening in your life than you really care for. The desert. You know that God is hearing…
Read moreGood things at our place, happening in threes
Tomato varieties that I’ll grow again, cross my ‘mater-pickin’ heart
Follow me EVERY SUMMER, as I stand in my crowded tomato rows picking tomatoes, I think deeply about the varieties that I planted this year. Analytically. Critically. Well . .…
Read moreWhat Marguerite has Wrought
Follow me This is one of my favorite types of posts to write. This is one of my favorite types of events to report! What type of event? This one:…
Read moreThe Girlies Days of Summer: on raising grandchildren through a difficult time
Follow me While our sweet daughter-in-law Sonia undergoes treatment for her Hodgkin’s lymphoma (recently– distressingly–returned, after eight years’ absence), we frequently have her two little girls for house guests. Raising…
Read moreSummer Squash Abundance Lasagna: a desperation recipe
Follow me You can choose one of three tacks on that moment (during which you are gazing out at your bountiful patch of summer squash) that you are hit (as…
Read more