Summer evenings are time to enjoy sitting in your yard, surrounded by beautiful flowers, enjoying a glass of wine from a local vineyard. Who wouldn’t enjoy this? Cheers! What do you do to relax in the summer?
The Grocery Store Chaos
I have to admit that grocery stores have always been somewhat of an obsession with me. It probably began when I was a little girl and shopped regularly on Friday nights in what was then the flagship store of the now extremely successful Wegmans Food Markets found in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. When we…
Life Long Learning
There is no doubt that I am a life long learner! In the midst of obtaining a second master’s degree, twenty-five years after my first in an arguably different discipline, very few could accuse me of not being committed to learning and growing through my life thus far. Taking graduate courses during the school year,…
Writing to Connect
The blog writing experience has been very positive for me. I started this past March with the writing challenge posed by TwoWritingTeachers blog challenge called Slice of Life. It was a good fit for me since it is filled with teachers and most of the blog pieces are about teaching, students, and education. The educational…
Silent Sunday: Rocky Mountain National Park
Have You Ever?
Have you ever dug around a container in your kitchen pantry looking for the elusive piece of chocolate, tea bag, or other such treat? This happened to me yesterday, as it occasionally does when I do not keep up regular grocery shopping. Digging, and more digging, to find one last tea bag of the type…
Enrichment Post: Summer is the time to learn Origami!
I cannot exactly remember when Ben’s obsession with Origami began. It was sometime in fourth grade, or possibly the summer before. Origami is a great craft to learn. Summer is the perfect time to learn it. It is a craft that can be as simple as a crane or as complicated as a dodecahedron or…
The Intangible Honesty Box
My husband grew up selling concord grapes at a roadside stand. His family had several rows of grapes that were still producing when we started dating thirty – three years ago. From what I understand, the grapes would be picked and placed on a table or stand in the front yard, near the joining of…
You Know Who You Are
I shed a few tears before I even arose from bed this morning. It told me that my emotions were close to the surface. Today was the day I would officially end my twelve year’s of leadership as the founder and teacher of an after school garden club at one of our local elementary schools….
Waiting Patiently
We have some large projects going on at our house right now. The siding is being replaced and a few of the gardens are being revamped, once the siding is finished on each section. My husband is handy, so the siding job is his. My job, fitting for a nature lover and master gardener, is…