Writing fiction — the magic’s all tied up in the details

Despite the thirty-six fast-moving and unrelated balls I have in the air right now, I’m thinking about my novel again. The characters keep whispering bits and pieces to me as I build bamboo trellises and snake cotton string through ferny leaves to support the tomato plants. Lucy tells me more about her uncomfortably strong feelings [...]

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 [...]

Nourishing Downtown and the home front

Summer paid a visit over the weekend, bringing temperatures in the mid 80s and filling the neighborhood with the sweet coconut scent of sunblock. I enjoyed the mornings and evenings outside, but otherwise stayed under cover of the roof to do my deep cleaning. We’re looking at one more day of high temps today, so [...]

Weeding out the hope

I’m currently enjoying the benefits of having so little work last fall that I was able to clean up and amend the garden beds to ready them for spring planting. Sure, back then I didn’t think of it as a benefit, and I thought so even less when we ran out of money a couple [...]

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 [...]

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