Image by eyebrizzle If you’re reading this on a computer screen, you’re part of a new reality; a world where you’re granted greater options – an almost overwhelming array of ‘choices’ – more so than anyone else before you. So why, then, does the 21st century condition seems to be that of helplessness? Why do [...]
photo from NC Times It was 108º in Portland today. 108º with no AC, third floor bedrooms, and a house under construction. So you know what? Sometimes it’s okay to lay out stripped to your skivvies in your living room, splayed like snow angels to maximize surface area, slurping ice water and . . . [...]
Dear, dearest readers, Tonight is a night for taking it easy, but I just couldn’t pass up sharing this incredible picture with you. Teeny, tiny, garden guardians, hatching in my tomatoes this afternoon. Magic! Edit – 3 July 2009: It has been brought to my attention that these are not, actually, baby ladybugs. They are, [...]
Sometimes life is really hard. And things go wrong. Sometimes being a grown-up sucks. But sometimes, magic happens. Like when you spend a weekend in fall, uprooting that out-of-control vine that’s taken over everything, including the fence, and the hedge, and that old tree out front. [...]
