“We’re at a store called Pink. Did you know you can try on thongs over your shorts?” This is a week of many firsts: Saoirse’s first “hang out” at the mall with Martina, our foreign exchange student from Madrid; her first siting of a Wendy’s restaurant; her first exposure to the makeup aisle at Wal-Mart, […]
Heart-Vision
“She needs to learn to advocate for herself, Mom.” I say it with such an air of authority. It’s Ula’s second day of Circus Camp down at the Panther Creek Arts Center. Cornelia organized it for all the local kids, and Ula, with her own passion for the circus, was especially excited. But she had […]
The Other America
Going to watch fireworks is the last thing I want to do on the Fourth of July. I’m mulling over the possible excuses and reasons I can present to get out of it as Bob and I walk the dirt road, scanning the blossoms on the elderberry bushes. We’re checking to see if any of […]
Truth & Dreams
My graduate school advisors would not clear me to begin my research on Schoharie County agriculture before I could proficiently discuss the nature of truth. Was I a positivist, one who believes that truth can be known, most often through quantification, and therefore predicted and controlled? Or was I more of a naturalist, who believed […]
What Democracy Looks Like
Photo courtesy of Reggie Harris I’m leafing through a stack of protest signs in the corner of the mudroom, reading the markered letters, looking to see what can be recycled for tonight. The subjects we’ve collected thus far are about human rights and the environment. It looks like we’ll need to draft something fresh and […]
Slow. (Not stupid.)
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 […]
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