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costco shopping list for real food(ies): part one
Every few years, some of my girlfriends from high school escape for a girls’ only weekend at Lake Monroe. It’s funny to think back on how our conversations have changed.…
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wendell for wednesday
I loved catching this on The Writer’s Almanac last week: XI The need comes on me now to speak across the years to those who finally will live here after the…
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DIY trellis
We had plans this year to create a new trellis out of PVC pipe like this one. We bought the materials but just hadn’t gotten around to building it because…
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wendell for wednesday
Sabbath 1998 I. Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way into the lasting world and will not leave, Whatever happens. Wendell Berry
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using up our CSA share: radishes, kale, zucchini, and tomatoes
We’re two weeks into our CSA this year and loving every bit of it, as usual. We’re partnering with Harvestland CSA this year, and they have been so great so far –…
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gardening tip: plant more peas
I went to pick up some donated plants for Project Eden a few weeks ago and, in the process, made a new friend. Elizabeth is a master gardener and was…
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wendell for wednesday
“I don’t think you can solve poverty as an economic or financial problem and still allow the ground to be destroyed under people’s feet. … All these people yelling about…
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homemade organic hummus
We love hummus around our house. We eat it all year around, but we seem to eat gallons of it in the summer – it’s so easy to pack along…
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wendell for wednesday
The Real Work It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which…
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wendell for wednesday
A little Jayber for this beautiful day, because it’s about time for my annual re-reading of one of my favorite novels: “But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time…of all…