How does your garden grow

Oh, my. Summer is at the gate, straining at her lead and ready to gallop. So much growth happening so fast and always the sense that I can’t ever catch up. Clearly I’m still too fragmented in my efforts. Two years ago I began to envision work that allows me to be at home, pay [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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