Hot Tub Musings
Morning Each morn I soak my bones. Steaming water soothes the pain. Watch the sun break through the clouds. Hear the birds proclaim the dawn. I concentrate on my breath. A tiny cloud Drifts out to sea. I concentrate on my breath and wonder...
Rescuing Bolted Lettuce
Help! My Lettuce is Bolting. The heatwave that hit Santa Cruz recently fried my chard leaves and caused the leaf lettuce to bolt. Looking at the gangly plants, overnight grown to four feet in height, I wondered why we call this sudden growth “bolting.” I...
Life as an Author
Transition from Writer to Author – it’s crazy! I’ve been absent from these pages for nearly month. A month that at times felt like a year, and at other times like a single moment. So I thought it only fair that I bring my loyal readers, and my new...
Back to the Land in Silicon Valley
From the Prologue: “We all worked together. Ate together. Sang together. Learned together. We had a good life. After living close to the natural cycles of the earth year after year, good and not good, we grew stronger and more resilient, learned to manage our...
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