Cool weather crop reminder

Have you planted your spinach yet? No? Well, go on! Get out there and sprinkle some seed. I heard today that our local food coop hasn’t been able to get any fresh spinach for weeks. I planted four beds with spinach two weeks ago, and tomorrow I’m going to toss a little more seed out [...]

AIG, outrage and getting things done

I’m beginning to wonder if this ongoing headache I have is caused by all of the eye rolling I’m doing when hearing or reading about people’s Outrage over the AIG bonuses. This is why I need to just stop traditional media news input. O, the drama. Please. It’s as if journalists, politicians and consumers-turned-citizens have [...]

For the love of money

A few days ago, I caught myself saying to my mother in-law I hate this money shit when describing the knot I’d tangled myself up in, trying to figure out where our money comes from and where it goes. After I said it, I thought I need to get a handle on such thoughts. What [...]

Forced frugality

Phew. ::looks around:: ::dusts self off:: So life chez Ferry is full of shifts and changes and the requisite stress and low-grade depression that tends to accompany such shifts and changes. It’s difficult to carve out the mental space for doing fun things like writing blog posts or novel chapters or essays to try to [...]

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