I’ll be the first to tell you I LOVE masking. I’ve enjoyed two years of not getting colds and flu bugs. At the cafe, the girls and I have decided it is just a more hygienic way to do food service. We see a lot of customers in the course of a day, and we […]
You Gotta be BAAAAAAAD to be Good!
Sheep tipping has become a thing here on the farm. Every spring, Gwen the shearer travels to Sap Bush as part of her annual circuit through the northeast. Like her dad before her, she sets up in the barn and invests long days working through the flock, removing their fleeces so that I can have […]
Everybody’s Favorite Neighbor
When it rains, it pours. I’m sitting in the cop car, staring out over Panther Creek on Sunday, looking at the back of the cafe, waiting for the cop to take down my statement about the body upstairs in the house where we’re parked. He’s being very kind to me. But he’s not a fast […]
Math Lessons
I remember starting on my parenting journey, meeting a high school freshman who, her parents assured me, was “gifted.” She was already studying calc II (and yet she couldn’t make her own breakfast). In my youth I was an AP math student, and a math tutor in college, and I presumed my own children would […]
Trying out the role of only child
Some of you have written, wondering how Ula is coping with Saoirse gone to New York City to work for Plowshares Coffee. They are, after all, the best of friends…Until Saoirse screams at Ula for leaving her socks on the floor, or Ula constructs homemade nunchucks and tries them out on her sister. Which is […]
We interrupt this podcast to bring you a DIFFERENT podcast
I’ll never forget the day a doctor sent my seven-year-old kid out of the room and told me that she was so severely visually learning disabled, she’d likely never be able to read or ride a bike. He didn’t even want to work with her, as her case was too hopeless. My first step was […]
Listening
I’m wondering how to include pig castration on Ula’s homeschool quarterly report. “It’s definitely science,” Jenn reminds me over lunch. “And don’t forget dissection!” “Is that vivisection?” Bob wonders. No. That would be if it were for research purposes. I think it might be more of a surgical procedure. All of this language would […]
Spring Headstones
One of our favorite history lessons with the girls was to walk the dirt roads and through the forests and fields, studying the historical clues: the stone walls and foundations that made the first homesteads and paddocks, the barbed wire that followed the civil war, the monoculture timber that came in the great depression, after […]
Vacation
It’s only a queen, the same size we have at home. But at home our bed typically holds some combination of 1-3 dogs, two cats and two daughters. Many nights when Bob comes upstairs he clings to the very edge, sleeping like a bird on a perch while I cling to the opposite side. Some […]
Spring Peepers
We’re rushing this afternoon, whispering encouragements to the pork to finish braising, washing bowls and spatulas as quickly as we dirty them, slamming utensils back onto their shelves and racks as fast as possible. There are more important places to be than prepping in the cafe when the light is like this, when the temperature […]
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