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A Tomato By Any Other Name

Every year I write about my little deck garden and my travails with tomatoes. This year was an amazing year…

green thumb, growing tomatoes, roof gardens, Taipei

Trash Island: Reason 318 Why I Love Boston

Going to new places doesn’t get me nearly excited as redisovering places right where I live. I guess in that…

Boston Harbor Islands, Harbor ferry, Spectacle Island, The Big Dig

The Garden Giveth and Taketh Away

You may recall I planted a little container garden this summer, despite the fact that I lose most of it…

Backyard gardening, black cherry tomatoes, pepper plants, squirrels, sun gold tomatoes, sweet potato plants, tomoatoes

Landman Coming In

My grandparents had a little cottage they built themselves on a lake on the Massachusetts/Connecticut border where I spent many…

Alzheimer's, cottages, Memere, nosy neighbors, vacation camps

Sit Down, Shut Up, and Listen

I can’t take credit for this title. My wordsmithy friend Becky came up with it after our book group read…

redlining, Robin DiAngelo, white fragility

Take Me to the River

I just finished a two-week vacation. Lucky, right? Except I had forgotten I hadn’t seen Blanche in a while (Blanche…

camping, canoe, massage, Saco River, Stress, vacation

Under Construction

I changed the look of my blog, but since I’m not really sure what I’m doing, it’s still a bit…

apostrophe, comma, grammar, it’s

This Is What I’m Sayin’

I have been trying to learn more about race and institutional racism. It’s slow work, mostly because I am more…

Black skin and suncscreen, New York Times, Suncreen

Stick a Cork in It

Or as we say in Boston, stick a cawk in it. I have another perimenopause story for you; I keep…

chilled wine, Corkscicle, Kim Crawford, wine, wine canteens

Walker Wrangling

Kids teach you things and make you say things you would never have otherwise, like the time I said to…

eldercare, walkers, wheel chairs

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