Home Grown Ingredients
Many people believe that it’s bad manners to discuss politics over dinner. Merriam Webster defines politics as “the art or science of government.”
Our Living Constitutions
Independence Day on July 4 celebrates the thirteen colonies break from Britain in 1776. The Revolutionary War, and all the discussions and documents
Working Through Words
Some writers, Flannery O’Connor and Joan Didion for instance, have written that they don’t know what they think until they’ve written it down
Planting and Praying
Bulbs often provide the first color of Spring. Native wildflowers bloom later and provide food for butterflies and bees. Wildflowers are often considered
Uncrossing Our Wires
Every month I ask myself, should I keep writing? I worry about missed words, extra words, and significant typos.
The March of History
One online calendar for March commemorates thirty causes, including Brain Injury Awareness, Women’s History, Irish American Heritage, and Kidney.
Memoir: Chapter One
National Public Radio’s 2021 list of 369 “Books We Love” includes four memoirs. One, “Pregnant Girl,” describes Nicole Lynn Lewis’s experience as a
Belief and Health
People talking provides the first narratives of anything. Western civilization values print history over oral history because reading and writing demonstrate higher levels
Kitchen Conversations and Personal Power
Organized institutions and systems, and the individual people functioning within those systems have moving parts and institutional memories.
Going to Seed
My garden is going to seed. Across my yard, the purple coneflowers have lost their petals, spiky brown seed heads remain.
