Dec 21, 2009 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 21 Yesterday about 20 inches of snow fell on Poison Ivy Acres. It’s hard to judge the exact amount because the wind’s sculpting of the snowfall…some places it’s a foot deep, while in other areas the drifts are over three feet. I’ve...
Dec 20, 2009 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 20 It snowed all day, and I still have a cold, so it seemed like a good day to write and bake cookies. I’m working on my new book, which has had the following working titles so far: Cultivating Life, Gardening Totally, The Ground...
Dec 19, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 19 One winter day when my boys were ten and fifteen years old, we went to the grocery store and as we left the youngest begged me to buy a scratch ticket. “Oh, honey,” I said, “they’re a waste of money. Only a very, very few people win...
Dec 18, 2009 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 18 After traveling all day to get home from San Francisco, with, can you believe it, catching another head cold, I am not in the best of shape for posting something thoughtful. I do want to say, however, that one of the great things...
Dec 17, 2009 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 17 It was my last day in the city, and I had fun doing city things. The Museum of Modern Art, a French bakery for breakfast (and provisions for the plane tomorrow) and shopping for gifts. As much as I enjoy being in the city for...
Dec 16, 2009 | my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – December 16 A conversation with a fellow writer, and a walk through Chinatown, started me thinking about my front yard. See, among the stores on Grant Avenue, I spied a garden planted on the front of a building. This reminded me of an earlier...
