What Are Your Plans For National Poetry Month? It will be difficult to exceed the release of an indie-published book I had last year. Last week, I read a post from Mary Lee Hahn about her plans for National Poetry Month. She was considering different forms of poetry to focus on during April. Over the years, I’ve realized it…
Have you ever pulled an “all nighter?” Back in college, in the 80’s I veered away from this practice. Actually, I saw no need for it. I studied hard, was organized, and ultimately prepared for my exams and practicums without having to pull an all nighter. In short, I was not a procrastinator. Of course,…
Have you Ever? This is an occasional, returning series of this blog. Links to some of my other “Have You Ever?” posts can be found at the end of this page. I have written about caves once before….not on caves specifically but on following rules regarding caves. I find myself in the odd position of…
No one realizes how dependent on, or abusive of, water you are until you do not have it. This is the situation in which my family now finds itself! Here is our story…. Yesterday, my husband spent most of the day re-grading part of our front yard. There was a mis-hap with herbicide this year…
The following post is a reprint of a paper I wrote five years ago this spring, during my very first course for graduate studies in the field of Environmental Education. Much has changed since then, namely the cessation of Evergreen Garden Club, a group to which I refer in this post. However, I find myself…
Over the last week, my husband and I decided that we needed to paint the “den” area off of our kitchen and the kitchen itself. These two rooms flow together and when we noticed the ceiling over the patio door had some splotchy areas that turned out to be dust or accumulated dirt, it pushed…
Ames, Iowa is a great college town. My oldest son has lived there for the last six years, completing one degree and now working on others. So, over the years, we’ve experienced many different facets of the community there. From wandering the halls of one of the largest dorms in the country on the ISU…
After one of the most relaxing Sunday’s ever, I woke up this morning just knowing it would be a great day! The sun is out, shining brightly, and skies are blue! It’s supposed to be sixty degrees which means that by this afternoon, I can put my bulbs in the ground! My first order of…
“Have you ever” is a recurring series in my daily blog. I do not visit it as often as I should but I recently thought of another topic that fits this category of wondering if I am like other people or not. If you are interested, some of my other post in this series are…
For part of my returning series, Have You Ever?, today I will ask if you have ever eaten a kumquat? Earlier this week, while grocery shopping, I passed by the citrus stand at the grocery store. There, the petite, yet familiar oval orange fruit lay in a bin just beckoning me to grab some to…