

Garden Harvest
Putting my garden to bed each fall is an undeniably daunting task. I currently have nineteen good-sized perennial flower beds, separated...


Slack Tide
As I write these words it is Saturday morning, and it is summer, and the sun is shining. So why am I in front of my keyboard? Because...

No Parachute
Though I wouldn’t willingly come within 100 feet of a bungee jump, I’ve been flinging myself off metaphorical cliffs just about ever...


A Grain of Sand
“A tiny crystal in your inner ear, smaller than a grain of sand, moved the wrong way and pressed on the nerves that tell you which way is...


News-Lash Antidotes
We live in interesting times... and pretty tough ones. Perhaps our remote ancestors would disagree, given the physical challenges they...