LEANING TOWARD THE LIGHT I was having my morning coffee the other day and noticed the succulents in these cute rainboots. (See the photo.) I love this little art piece (thank you,Read More…

Back to the garden (again…). Gardening means short-term pain, long-term gain. Take thinning the seedlings, for example. I hate making that decision! Which one gets pulled up and which one remains? UGH.Read More…

That’s what I’m seeing. It’s being promoted across our country. And for those who want to pigeon-hole me politically, good luck. I’m to the left on some issues, to the right onRead More…

If you pray for a loving heart, someone hard to love is likely to show up. If you pray for your children, you might have to make tough decisions to protect them.Read More…

In Colorado, we sow our seeds after Mother’s Day. Then we wait. It seems to take forever for those seedlings to pop their little green heads out of the soil, but theyRead More…

We live in an area full of rabbits, coyotes, bears, deer, and other critters. Some of them LOVE our vegetables, so we built a fence around our garden. Without that boundary, ourRead More…

MY DAD October 12, 1928 – April 12, 2018 Dad died a few days ago. I did the eulogy at his funeral and concluded with these words written by F.B. Myer toRead More…

My husband works on the soil in our garden each Spring. It’s quite a process. He turns over the dirt, pulls out old weeds and crud, mixes in compost, shores up theRead More…

Do you ever just want to turn off the news? We’re SO inundated with bad stuff. It can make us numb. But do one or two issues rise to the top forRead More…

OH, THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ Hi everyone! I’m in the throes (good throes!) of writing a new book, so my blog posts for the next few months will be excerptsRead More…