Category: Green Living

One thing we’ve learned about our children (and most children, I suspect), is how happy they are when met with the following elements: flowing water in which to play, rocks to scamper across and collect, a bit of sunshine, and plenty of unhurried, un-rushed unstructured time. We made a point of slowing down one day … Continue reading “Asheville: Laurel Creek”

We have just returned from a week-long* trip to Asheville, NC and boy was it a great trip! We visited this magical city nearly a year ago and fell in love with the misty mountain mornings, the cool fresh air, the sounds and sights of nature, and the copious waterfalls and beauty everywhere. After a … Continue reading “Asheville: The Straw Bale House”

Above: our weed-infested garden last Monday; below, 24 hours later Walking past our vegetable garden this summer became painful. We tried to ignore it– the overgrown weeds, the rotting kale that had drowned months ago in the unseasonably wet entire month of June. Past the weeds that grew waist-high, past all the failure. Brush it aside, … Continue reading “The Garden, a Metaphor for Friendship”

Our weekend started early; thanks to Andrew’s arrival home to us and Oliver’s birthday, we had much to celebrate. I felt my mood lifting hour by hour, hug by hug, long conversation and laughing fit at a time. It may have been the funk of this summer or it may have been my deep longing … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

Yesterday morning I spent my time sweating and swatting at the tiny red ants that crawled into my shoes and up my leg, attempting in vain to protect the massive nest which I was single-handedly destroying as I pulled weeds and the rest of the strawberry plants from one of the beds of the boys’ … Continue reading “Breakfast with the Ladies”