Bob and I are on our morning walk, our ears tuned in to the new warblers that have come into the area this week, our eyes honed to catch glimpses of them along the side of the dirt road. This has become a deeply pleasurable ritual for us: the girls get their own breakfasts and […]
Hobby?!
I never anticipated such nasty language erupting from such a nice lady’s mouth. Her daughter just moved to the area, and they had come in to see what the cafe was like. As I cleared their plates, she told me about the years she and her husband had run a restaurant. “It was fun,” she […]
The $4000.00 Cartwheel
I should have pruned my blueberries months ago, when the winter sun was just starting to rise higher in the sky. I should have broadforked my cut flower bed last fall, then seeded it to a winter cover crop so the soil would be nourished and easier to work this spring. I should have kept […]
Peepers
Welcome back! The long winter’s rest if officially over, and I’m so happy to be back to blogging. It’s been a long and strange winter, but beautiful nonetheless….Thanks for joining the blog for another season! According to one of my college literature professors, the song of the dangerous sirens Oddyseus so longed to hear harkened to […]
A long winters’ rest
Thanks for all your support this year. As many of you know, now is the time when this blog goes to sleep. Our family lives more privately during the winter months, and I am, once again, working on my novel. If you really miss all of us at Sap Bush Hollow Farm, come see us Saturday […]
Shut up and eat.
I have five non-biological siblings: men and women with whom I’ve spent the most formative years of my life building trust, defending each other, looking out for each other, coming to each others’ sides in times of need. I have only one biological sibling. He and I can draw blood over cranberry sauce. I don’t […]
Documentary filmmaker looking for Radical Homemaker stories
Do you have a story you’d be willing to share about your journey to become a radical homemaker? Do you want to be a radical homemaker but don’t know how to extract yourself from your job, medical insurance or way of life? Was it hard to learn what you needed to know to become a radical […]
A letter to my daughter
For over a decade, this has been a purple blog: a mix of red readers and blue readers. Inevitably I periodically anger half of you with my political views. That’s okay. Because like my family and community, you continue to be part of my life. Today’s post, an open letter to my 13 year old […]
Beer, Coffee, and The Great American Novel
I gaze out the side window as Mom drives me home from the train station. The girls are in the back. Bob rides with Dad. Technically, I’m still on vacation. I shouldn’t have to think about what she’s saying. I shouldn’t even have to listen to her. “I think we need to open the cafe […]
Ghosts or souls?
Apparently there’s not just a ghost in the basement. There seems to be more than one. “It’s like a room full of noisy children down there!” My friend Joellyn, a psychic, gave us the macabre news shortly after the cafe opened when she was coming by to purchase meats. “They’re harmless,” she assured me as […]
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