by Marlene Bumgarner | May 26, 2024 | Aging, Cooking and Eating, Family, Gardening, Health
Sunday Breakfast It is Sunday morning, and I’m just finishing my version of a Full English Breakfast, which today consists of boiled then sauteed shitake mushrooms, sliced tomato, sliced new potatoes, chopped bok choi, a fried fresh egg, and two slices of...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Apr 22, 2024 | Aging, Community, Family, Gardening, Health
Unexpected News In late February, while visiting friends and family in Santa Cruz, I received a phone call from my dermatologist. Before I drove north, he had removed a mole from my breast and sent the tissue for testing. The diagnosis, he now informed me, was...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Jan 31, 2024 | Aging, Family, Gardening, Health, Nature
An Early Start Good morning! I’m writing at 7:00 a.m. today after checking in with my online writing group and taking Kismet out for the first of our walks of the day. Shafts of yellow light creep through my Venetian blinds, urging me to wake up and experience...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Jan 15, 2022 | Community, Cooking and Eating, Family, Gardening, Grandparenting, Health
Explore Your Local Market In the last decade, millions of people have altered their buying habits and now purchase some food from CSAs, farmers’ markets, and grocery stores that specialize in locally grown, unsprayed, and unprocessed produce and grains, sustainable...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Sep 13, 2021 | Aging, Child development, Family, Gardening
Hi, everyone, It’s been many weeks since I last put up a status report, and I apologize. My attention has been divided in several directions this past few months, so this will be kind of a catch-up blog. Nana Camp After a few weeks of opening boxes and settling into...
by Marlene Bumgarner | Jul 12, 2021 | Aging, Community, Family, Gardening, Grandparenting, Writing
Settling In It’s been several weeks of ups and downs, but I’m finally settling into a routine. I’m even starting to write again, although that has had to take second place to keeping up with the students in my two online Child Development classes....