One Broken Shrub

 Echium Sitting on the Glider. To Take it Down a NotchWe planned to prune the Echium candicans this winter, as it had overtaken the cedar glider on our front deck. Come spring, the shrub would prevent us from gliding through the air of a soft evening awash with budding.But the grasshopper asked us to wait. And who […]


While We Wait

Cadence and Me. July, 2011. Ready?  Our grandson comes early this morning to visit us. I’m waiting, waiting for his dad to drop him off. All I know is Friday morning.  [It’s complicated, our family pruned and grafted: Cadence lives in Hawaii with his mommy, Rob-Daddy, and little brother. His father lives, as we do, […]


I’m Coming Out Today

Grandpa’s Desk. Bookcase by Dad. Both Renewed by Rich. Letting a Book HappenWe’re doing things a little differently around our house these days. Over the holidays, Rich repainted our bedroom to obliterate the color that I’d selected a few years ago. I believe its name was “Wrong Green.” Don’t paint your bedroom Wrong Green. You’ll […]


Really Slow Bread

A Boule.  Bread in the Plan Searching for uses for my new enamel-on-cast-iron dutch oven, I came across a bread recipe that requires about twenty hours of rising time. I was intrigued. The recipe calls for just a tiny bit of yeast. The dough isn’t kneaded; you just mix it up, cover it, and then […]


Really Slow Bread

A Boule.  Bread in the Plan Searching for uses for my new enamel-on-cast-iron dutch oven, I came across a bread recipe that requires about twenty hours of rising time. I was intrigued. The recipe calls for just a tiny bit of yeast. The dough isn’t kneaded; you just mix it up, cover it, and then […]