Country Roads, Take Me Home. Or Maybe on a Good Road Trip
It’s road season in the country No snowbanks, no black ice, no whiteouts, no blizzards. Turtle-dodging month is over. They […]
Does Anyone Else Think it’s Immoral to Sell Water?
When the first bottled water appeared on grocery shelves, we all fell about laughing. Who would be idiot enough to
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Learn. Relearn. Write, Write, Write.
Back from a week long writing retreat for novelists. Learned that I have forgotten there is actual technique behind the
Keeping Milkweed in my Garden. For the Monarchs
On a farm, any plant with “weed” at the end of its name is an enemy to be destroyed. Pigweed,
Sometimes You Gotta Love a Marketing Pic
I stumbled across this when wandering the web. Like nearly all of us, I’m pretty impervious to marketing. The slicker
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High Fiving the Past. The Really Really REALLY Distant Past
Looks like a kid was messing about with spray paint just this morning, doesn’t it. When you want to make
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Thanksgiving Ahead. Start the Turkey Now.
In case any of you are wondering what your turkey looks like before it arrives on your table, here are
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The Marysburgh Vortex, Our Very Own Local Bermuda Triangle
I just watched a documentary recounting the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes, including five US bombers on a training
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Strange Cures from the Past for Whooping Cough
Historical research for my sequel to The Tomorrow Country, turns up a lot of weird stuff. Cures for whooping cough,
Garter Snakes Emerge, Have Love Fest, Depart. A Rite of Spring.
There’s a certain weathered fence post that does nothing but look unremarkable and hold up page wire through summer droughts