Welcome to Poetry Friday! Our host this week is the super kind and talented Tabatha Yeatts. I’ll link to her post at the end today. This past Sunday, my husband joined me on my new volunteer experience. We drove to a county two hours away to survey for Karner Blue Butterflies. Karner Blues are tiny…
It’s that time of year, mid-summer, and that means it’s time to edit my gardens, my jewelry, and my writing. So, I’ve been doing some of each. My gardens My native plant garden is blooming and looks great this year! Here are some photos: Other gardens are flourishing as well – our wetland area has…
This week, we’ve dealt with smoke from the wildfires in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and Canada drifting down to infuse our air with haze, pollutants, odors, and sometimes ash. Our air quality index was as high as 500, as it was last night. Just so you understand the scale, 00-50 for an air quality…
Welcome Friends! If you want to know more about Poetry Friday, check this post by children’s author Renee M. LaTulippe. Happy Independence Day, too! I’m back to writing a little poetry and had fun with this acrostic this week: ACCOMPLISH Achieve your goal Complete a mission Congratulate yourself Only you can do this Make time…
Please do something to help our pollinators! Stay tuned this week, Pollinator Week 2026, to read about pollinators, their plight, and what we can do to help them. Since my article in 2021, I’ve become a Certified Pollinator Steward through Pollinator Partnership, planted three native beds, moved to a more rural and Northern Climate, and…
It’s been a tough two weeks. While our vacation was nice, I’ve been in a state of stress since arriving home. Why? Well, that is the focus of today’s post. When we arrived at our son’s in Colorado, I got a notification that the publisher and peer feedback on my 12,000+ word chapter for a…
A Poetry Friday Post Two years ago, I tutored an Afghan student. She was living abroad as a refugee from her home country. We tackled an 8th-grade curriculum together, which included algebra, English as a second language, geography, and science. It was a fulfilling role for me. Towards the end of our year together, her…
Good Poetry Friday, wherever you are! Currently, I am in the great State of Utah. We are on our southwestern National Parks trip. It is the second of such trips – the first was in 2021. I don’t know where the last five years have gone! On this trip, we traveled to Denver by plane…
Round and round you go, where you get off, nobody knows… Poetry Friday is here this week! Hello! Poetry Friday is here this week! If you want to know more about what Poetry Friday is, please see this post by children’s author and poet, Renee M. La Tulippe. The Ferris Wheel Come to find out,…
Yesterday, I saw a post on social media that posed the question in my title. I was interested to see what people had written, expecting to see a lot of one person’s name. I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t. I’ll reveal what I expected at the end of my post. This realization just showed…