Ever since I first heard about them, I have wanted to have a goat that would pass out. It seems to me it would provide hours of entertai...

Twelve years later, I can still remember my horror on the morning that I heard. Horror both at what had happened and at what would happen ne...

Hello there. It's been a while. I only intended to be off of my blog and Facebook for 40 days, and that 40 days ended over a week ago....

Photo Credit: Morguefile Today, the only thing I can find to write about is fear. And I don't want to write about fear. I am sic...

Photo Credit: Morguefile Welcome to part two of Into the Tidal Zone. Part One can be read here . This is intended for audience partici...

My mountain, back in 2011, after we came home, as we watched it instead of Fourth of July fireworks. Two years ago today, I was at a h...

I have written the ending to my book. Or, rather, I have written it again. I have now revised each chapter 20-40 times, until the langua...

The arugula has already bolted. We spent the weekend making homes for tomatoes. Digging nice, deep holes, spaced a bit too close, and s...

Techno music is blasting at Chili's. The clatter of stacked plates on trays erupt from the nearby kitchen. A cacophony of voices; plates...

Another black australorp, brooding "Where is Ninja?" For a good five minutes, I examined the different parts of my yard: t...

Photo Credit: Morguefile by mariocom20 Mindfulness. Doesn't that just sound like a good idea? I've had mindfulness on my mind....

Photo Credit: Morguefile by imelenchon I have fibromyalgia. Because I don't write about it a lot, I think that I have some rea...

I am just a little frightened by the violence of the human heart. I am out here on a road, with human hearts veering out of all reason, wi...

They are back—the husband and my eldest son, back from Mexico, where they went to build houses, back with tents and foam sleeping pads and d...

Photo Credit: Morguefile by Heirbornstud Last fall, I double dug a garden bed, shaped like a triangle, and seeded it with native flowe...

Last summer's garden mid-June You will find, now that it is the season, that I write about gardening a lot. I wrote about it a lot...

Photo Credit: by T.Voekler  Wikimedia Commons On my kitchen counter: a half-gallon of vanilla soy milk, two cookbooks, an empty cup fo...