Small Moments of Great Reward

Here are three little bits in the last few days that made me smile. The book and the bookmark 1) Yesterday   I was reading Ghost Dogs: On Ki...

Bookmarks everywhere My son Ben, starting in his early childhood and lasting into adolescence, collected bookmarks. Our local library had fr...

How I Step As I wrote in my last post, I am taking steps to unplug (de-plug, turn off, step away, whatever word fits best) myself from the e...

Sunday morning around our table Just when I thought things were smoothing out, another bump (not a fork) in the road reminded me that life w...

A few weeks ago, while writing about my reentry into canning , I noted that I had taken down our kitchen garden (the Hej garden had gone do...

A year ago today, Warren came to my room and said, "So, are you ready?" A year ago today, Warren picked up the heavy soft bag, I p...

Keep reading... Back in January, 2016, I wrote about finally (finally!) letting go of and donating all of my canning equipment, from the anc...