From Juice to Jowl

July 18, 2013

Every morning I make and drink juice. Not the O.J. sweet-as-sunshine brunch-y sort, but the kale-cucumber-apple-beet-parsley-mint sort (K.C.A.B.P.M.J.). Green juices are super trendy and juice drinkers are fanatics about the health benefits of its live enzymes, phytonutrients, antioxidants, biophotons and cornucopia of nutrients that increase the mirco-electric potential of the cells yada yada, but I […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

July 17, 2013

On the go.

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Verbless VVednesdays

July 10, 2013

Barn swallow egg omelet?

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Elderflowers – Make Your Own St~Germain

July 7, 2013

By the side of the road is my favorite place to find food. Why? Because I’m a sucker for free stuff. A natural swag hag. And an Elderberry bush is especially swaggish because it has two seasons: the Flower Season and the Berry Season. Two projects. One bush. I look forward to the appearance of […]

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Steaks & Boys

July 5, 2013

This summer I have agreed to host my 16 1/2-year-old-son, The Big Lebowski, and his two cohorts, also 16 1/2. I made sure the downstairs bathroom-slash-laundry room renovations were finished before the crew descended on the house so that the whole downstairs floor could be boy-land: smells, dirty socks, wet towels, skanky bathing sits, half-eaten […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

July 3, 2013

Hello, Gorgeous.

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A U-Pick Cherry Extravaganza!

July 1, 2013

So Keith comes up to the house on his machine, glint in his eye, and says to me, “I’m taking some wood down to Fix Farm tomorrow morning; do you want me to set you up?” Now I have absolutely no idea what Keith means today by ‘set me up’, but in the past ‘setting […]

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For Which Norman Braved the Storm

June 26, 2013

The weather itself is a character in this book. It doesn’t tiptoe in quietly and then back out of the room without anyone noticing. A storm is a storm here. You feel its mythic presence approach from the north then loom overhead like some cruel God releasing its outpouring from giant buckets, complete with stunning […]

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Verbless VVednesdays

June 26, 2013

House fulla teenagers. Strategic planning.

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Verbless VVednesdays

June 19, 2013

Au revoir, California! Hello, Muddy Kitchen!

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