White on White

A heavy snow fell yesterday. Perfect for sledding, for coating fence rails just so, for catching on a small boy’s tongue. …

Political Seeds

It is time to order the seeds. I usually love looking through the catalogs, marking every single page with yellow…

Seeds. Doesn’t it all come down to that? We dress up the meaning of life with our human values – love,…

I imagine Adam and Eve left Eden in the late spring, which must have made it harder. Leaving a garden…

Build stuff. I don’t remember how old I was when my dad first started teaching me how to build stuff. …

I was given some cash for Christmas, and with it I bought my heart’s desire (or at least one of…

We have woken up to snow three mornings in a row, and the ground is frozen solid. But there are…

I don’t sleep well anymore. It could be the child, or the age, or the lack of exercise, but whatever mix…

…but I’m not that ambitious. I like things that can be built in a day, or an hour and a…

Noah loves raspberries, and so it seems only fair that he help me plant our newly arrived brambles. We planted…