by Marlene Bumgarner | May 9, 2016 | Child development, Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting, Nature
An Abundance of Vegetation This is the time of year that many colleges, universities, and non-profit corporations hold plant sales. Diligent students and volunteers have been propagating plant starts for months, and now they are showcasing the results of their work....
by Marlene Bumgarner | Feb 1, 2016 | Aging, Community, Cooking and Eating, Health
Paradise I awakened this morning to blue sky and sunshine. By the time I had eaten breakfast and finished my coffee, the Adirondack chairs on my deck were steaming and the puddles left from two weeks of welcome rain had started to recede. After exercise class I read...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Aug 4, 2015 | Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting, Health
Not long ago I received a letter from someone who owns a copy of my book, The New Book of Whole Grains. She wanted to know if I could tell her whether she should give up whole grains and switch to what she called “the caveman diet.” She was referring to...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Apr 4, 2015 | Cooking and Eating, Family, Grandparenting
I love Spring, and when I was growing up, Easter was the big spring celebration in our house. Even when money was tight, I always had new shoes and a new dress (When we lived on Aunt Sadie’s chicken ranch, it was made from a flowered cotton feed sack, and my...