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Report From PIA – March 2
So last night, I was in the ER, hooked up to a heart monitor, IV and oxygen. I was holding my phone up, trying to get a photo that captured the moment, when the nurse walked in and said, “What are you doing?” ”I’m taking a picture to send to [...]
Report From PIA – February 8
I walked around Poison Ivy Acres today, looking at the shrubs and trees we’ve planted over the past two years. Many of them are small, and show only a hint of what they will grow to be in the next five or ten years. Their beauty is [...]
Report From PIA – December 9
This morning I woke up and saw a slight coating of snow. Truthfully, my first reaction was to think, “This is nice; enough snow to change the landscape, but not enough to shovel.”
I love snow and how it transforms the garden and daily life, but my initial response was not [...]
Report From PIA – November 14
I was speaking to a woman the other day who is the mother of a three-month-old child. She was talking about the difficulty of getting her son to sleep, and I said, in an offhanded way, “Well, I wish when my first child was born, I knew that how we [...]
Report From PIA – September 22 – on assignment in Raleigh, NC
I always get inspired when I travel. Yes, some of this is because I’m seeing new things and places. I also have more time to just brainstorm when I’m sitting in an airport or a plane…there aren’t any distracting weeds to pull or vegetables [...]