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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Whew, I finished reading Catch-22 last night and am finally done broadening my cultural horizons for the summer. A couple weeks ago, I posted my current reading list and mentioned that Joseph Heller’s WWII novel hadn’t captured my interest. Still, I slogged on,...
Healthy, Healthy, Healthy
The eating’s been good around here since June 7 when we picked up our first weekly bag of produce at Wllber’s Northside Market. Since signing up for our first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share three years ago, Hiram and I have been eating healthy every...
Strawberry-Rhubarb Crisp
Nestled at the bottom of today’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) bag were two quarts of beautiful, hand-picked strawberries. This is the third week of strawberries Hiram describes as “red all the way through.” That red translates into flavor all the way through...
Yard Angst – Recycled
I’m a little on edge this week, trying to finish the edits on Different Dream Parenting and get it back to the editor by the June 27 deadline. But today’s recycled post from last June reminds me that book angst is much easier to deal with than wedding angst. This time...
Ma Ingalls; One Tough Cookie
This weekend my admiration for Caroline Ingalls, known as Ma to fans of the Little House on the Prairie series, grew by leaps and bounds. Perhaps strides and stomps would be more accurate terminology. Because Saturday my son, new daughter, husband and I spent the day...
The Bro & Sis Would Be Laughing
I’m so glad the bro and sis weren’t here this morning, sitting in the audience during my workshop this morning. They would have been rolling on the floor with laughter, and that would have been way too distracting. Why? Well, the topic was how to organize research and...