I astound even myself. Or, rather, Mark Bittman does. Red beets are indeed bloody and gory (and, not to be too déclassé, but seriously – put a note in the bathroom that you ate beets yesterday. Seriously. Especially if you have kids. You’ll think someone’s hemorrhaging. Everyone ...
Early this July two adult rabbits and one juvenile were spotted munching on the newly green weeds and grass in our unkept back lawn (better there than in the veggie garden.) They and the deer have found the most lovely plants on our property too good to pass up; but now, we have limi...
In his autobiography, Douglass recounts that, years earlier, the first time he had been sent to Baltimore, the Fells Point neighborhood was where he taught himself to read and write, copying the letters with which the men in the shipyard labeled boards and “making friends of all the little...
All the girls are nice and don’t mind if I am around. They know me, I have helped many of them with birthing their babies. They welcome the help when it is needed, but they keep a safe distance from me otherwise. If I had reached in to pet one of these cows, they would have ...
Honey Poultice- "At least I didn't have to pay for it." Healing Salve- "Healthiness in goo form." Umbrella- "This will keep my beard dry, eh?" Compass- N- "True North." S- "South." E- "East." W- "West." NE- "Northeast." SE- "Southeast." NW- "Northwest." SW- "Sout...
To me the moss looks like magic in miniature and I have to force myself to walk away. I have a scheduled ride at the end of this hike and the driver only needs to wait four minutes. I tell myself this repeatedly as there’s so many gorgeous things to photograph. The steepest hill...
Clearly I have had some traumatic experiences working in food service! Anyway, the truth about this Cheryl inside my head is that she is a dumb bitch. Sure, she’s really great at this one thing, but what does she know about anything else? That’s the glaringly obvious thing about peopl...
This “social distancing” won’t be an easy task for an on-the-go, extrovert like myself but what I do think is that it will be good for me! (And all in general). As I work from home and socially distance myself from others for the next few weeks, I wanted to have a goal/...
and would go on to become a suffragist and a state legislator. Anna didn’t go on to college; the tour may have been considered her college education. That might help to explain the comprehensive nature of the journals — they are, in my father’s words, “written in a careful hand an...
Early on, when people recognized I was one of the local experts, they would greet me and say: “Frank help me! I want to learn how to hunt mushrooms, but I don’t want to kill my family!” I must have had about three dozen people say that over the years. The name is for them...