i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
Every year I vow to beat the squirrels to my hazelnuts, which have spread and grown beautifully as a hedge flanking my persimmon tree. Every year I manage to fail somehow–this year was (mostly) no different: I saw they were mostly ready, and told myself …
Summer is when I break out my shaved ice machine, which is kind of cheating because my kids love this thing even though technically it’s literally cold water, so I could’ve made a smoothie too, but snow cone style it is. I use the syrup …
Myoga ginger (Zingiber Mioga) is a Japanese species of ginger prized for its edible shoots and flower buds. I first had it on my honeymoon to Japan over chilled tofu as a garnish, and must admit the flavor was a bit strange to me–like ginger …
On this past Sunday, I did the same thing I have always done every night after everyone else have been tucked into bed: I make my rounds to check on all our household denizens, from the big ones to the little ones. On this particular …
my grief is not loud it will not perform or ask for things it freezes over perfectly jagged ice crystals clinging to the inside of four chambers still full of pumping blood my grief is not a spectator sport it does not need condolences or …
This… is not your normal New Year’s resolution post (or it is, maybe you have a lot of friends as crazy as me)—it’s about starting a project I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but unfortunately have very little experience in: Aquaponics! That …
This post has been a long time coming, but it still took me a while because I have been trying, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, at figuring out how to reduce waste, as well as plastic, in my life. First, whoever says it’s easy to make …