I’m in the throes of an 8-week writing class, with the talented writer, Rebecca Flowers. The assignments are amazing, thought provoking and a bit challenging — which is exactly what I was hoping for. I did however, underestimate my available time. We’ve been playing around with points of view — who’s telling the story — [...]
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Now that the kids are back in school, I’m back in school. Long gone are those mindless afternoons sitting by the lake followed by the 9:30 requests to take pictures of the frogs caught in the fading sunlight. Now, at 9:30 p.m., I am instead asked, “Japan wants to move the U.S. military base out [...]
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I’m frustrated with cleaning products that claim to be safe and environmentally-friendly, yet I still can’t pronounce the ingredients listed on the label. So much for clean and green. Probably best to stick with the standards: vinegar, baking soda and borax. Baking soda and Borax are amazing cleansers. Baking soda actually suffocates mold so that [...]
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I’m replacing it with chocolate, and a handful of my lakehouse, frozen blueberries for a quick mid-day snack. Turns out, the survival of probiotics through the stomach when they are carried in through chocolate is three times greater than the survival rate of probiotics eaten in yogurt. Read more about Maramor Chocolates and why they’re [...]
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We fed him an entire meal grown at the lake. Corn, Hard to believe you got your start from a paper bag. Carrots more zucchini Green Beans and Cantaloupe. (The seed packet said “cantaloupe” but we opened them, and they were green — but they tasted ripe, and did not taste like honeydew melons.) And, [...]
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When I woke and walked outside, I found two pairs of shoes neatly positioned along the edge of the dock. These were not ours. Around the fire pit, there were a couple of damp t-shirts stretched out over the logs. A couple of those might be ours – it was hard to tell from where [...]
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Ants, and most insects, cannot stand the smell of mint. I found a recipe for using tea to clean wood floors in my 1950 household craft book (the tannic acid in tea creates a beautiful shine and color for hardwood floors.) So I combined the two to make a wood floor cleaner that repels insects. Here’s [...]
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When you stand in this spot in the front yard of my childhood home, and look directly across the street, and then just to the right, you will see the house that Mom would always nod to, and proudly and defiantly refer to the woman who lived there as “her best friend.” While she has [...]
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I have a 10-year old vision board up in the attic of my house that includes pictures of a red barn, a house on the water, surrounded by trees. When I pasted them on my board, I was merely cutting them up because the images soothed me; I liked looking at them. And the rest [...]
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