Stink bugs enjoying their daily meal. In some ways, doing things organically is easy, such as buying a better product. In other ways, it’s really fraking hard, such as growing your own food, especially when your garden is irresistable to insect life. I planted 9 tomato plants of various types. So far, I think 5 [...]

One thing I loved to study back in grad school was symbolism. I was working toward an English M.A., and while most people don’t realize it, such a course of study involves a lot of theory in various topics such as sociology, communication, gender issues, politics, etc. This is because language crosses all those lines, [...]

Marigold babies, survivors of the frost that killed the “parent” plant This post originally appeared on my other blog, Avidly Dreaming. I thought I’d become a more patient person. After years of doing whatever I could to not wait for things, the past couple of years I have mellowed and learned to wait. Until this [...]

This post originally appeared on my other blog, Avidly Dreaming. Two of my three January self-challenges are going along swimmingly. So far, line-drying my clothes and not using the dryer is no big deal. Switching to real foods is easy and yummy. But the no-TV challenge? I voluntarily broke that one last night.

This post originally appeared on my other blog, Avidly Dreaming. New year, new goals, new self-challenges…and already, new things learned. Since I hope I’ll be learning a lot of new things during this adventure, I decided to start special blog posts about “Things I’ve learned.” I’ll be interested to see how the list grows this [...]