Aliens in my garden

I started out writing this post about mysteries and how sometimes I’m disgustingly incurious, and sometimes I really need to solve the puzzle. The post was smarmy and boring and full of cliches about weaving threads together to make a blanket, and the blanket is a story, and the story is my life. It was [...]

Healthy partnerships: schools, families and businesses

Pattie Baker has a terrific post about her efforts to change the way food is viewed and promoted in her daughter’s school system. Her school gets extra money the way many schools do, by partnering with an area fast food restaurant for a “fun family night out” with a portion of the proceeds going to [...]

Fruits of my laboring breath

Wheeze… wheeze… I meant to take the camera out this weekend. The yard is spilling over with lush green and I’m sure the light in the afternoons had that gold-filter quality that makes the world feel this close to sepia. But I squinted a lot due to headaches and couldn’t get over feeling sorry for [...]

I believe in you

I just got back from a fantastic overnight in Greenville, Ohio where I attended the Nourishing Downtown event put on by Heritage Ohio, for the Main Street Ohio programs. But this post isn’t about that, I’m still digesting and marinating a few bits before I write it up and this post is the log jam [...]

Seeing the want in the need

I had to take my mother in-law to get her eyes examined and order new glasses the other day. The closest place her insurance covered was the Wal-Mart vision center. I opted for closest because my schedule is so wonky and needed to get back home as fast as possible. That could be faulty thinking. [...]

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