Stocking Up Starts Now!
June 17, 2009
For many new gardeners or foodies, the idea of harvest or stocking up seems like a fall-festival–type of activity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Harvest is happening all the time! And to be truly prepared for winter (which is, thankfully, months and months away), now is the time to start stocking up.
Today I froze some strawberries. The so-tiny ones that are locally, organically grown and so very tasty are only available for a few weeks during the early summer (it’s still… more
Comments (7)Put your kids to work. They’ll be glad you did.
June 15, 2009
I recently read a sweet little book called Growing Up Country, by Carol Bodensteiner. She describes her childhood growing up on a dairy farm in Iowa. What struck me most about her account is how much she enjoyed being challenged with work on the farm. At each age, she “graduated” to harder and harder chores, and it felt like such an achievement to her. Which doesn’t mean she loved all her chores all the time, but like many people who have grown up on farms, they taught her how to… more
Comments (8)Top Ten Reasons Why Art is Essential to the Human Spirit
June 12, 2009
I am staying in this really cool hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, called 21C. It’s a museum dedicated to 21st century art, so as you can imagine, there is art everywhere. As I ate dinner by myself in the absolutely yummiful hotel restaurant called Proof, gazing at amazing and bizarre horse photographs (with a wonderful video loop of a kid eating soup projected onto a painted table and chairs on the wall), I was reminded that art is so inspiring and important. It IS essential to the human… more
Comments (12)The Story of (Old) Stuff
June 10, 2009
I love shopping for antiques. Not at the hushed fancy places, although that’s nice sometimes. I prefer the antique malls. Every town’s gotta have one, because where else would people sell their old stuff? I know, I know, Ebay. But there is no substitute for rambling down dusty aisles and looking at people’s lifetime collections. Plus, it’s so environmentally correct!
On the one hand, it’s a thrill to see if I can find something fabulous. Something that may be worth something, but… more
Comments (6)The Real Reason Our Government Just Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger
June 8, 2009
It really doesn’t matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in charge. Unless some politicians grow some…shall we say…masculine tools essential for procreation, we are doomed to have an increasingly large federal government. And yet, with Bernanke finally warning us that our debt is leading to financial instability (what took him so long?), maybe someone in Washington will do something—preferably more than just raising the price of stamps.
The problem is, I have discovered, there are… more
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