How Does the Right Hand Know What the Left Hand Is Doing?
I was wiping down the kitchen counter. My right hand was sweeping along in that lazy figure-eight motion you don’t think about, heading straight for a mason jar. Before I registered the…
A quiet place for writing about the garden, the workshop, the woods, and whatever else is keeping my attention. Pull up a chair.
— Cindy
Recent writing
recent writing
My Most Invasive Garden Pest
Roadie came to us at four weeks old, the son of a local feral female. We snagged him early and weaned him ourselves. He was one of three kittens. The other two…
My Husband
I’ve started keeping a tally, which is the surest sign a thing has caught my curiosity and won’t quit. The phrase is “my husband.” Women here say it constantly. My husband put…
Old Dog, New Tricks (Sort Of)
The old adage about teaching old dogs new tricks doesn’t hold up well around here. I’ve spent my whole working life learning and adapting, though not in the way you might picture.…
The Loudest Version Wins
I read something this morning that made me close the laptop and go outside. It doesn’t much matter what it was, which is sort of the point. A take, delivered with complete…
My Frogs Are Back
The frogs are back. They started singing in March, same as the last two years, and the pond greeted five or six of them — sometimes closer to ten when I count…
2015-2016 Trip – September 2016
September 2016 of our yearlong cross country adventure.
2015-2016 Trip – August 2016
August 2016 of our yearlong cross country adventure.
2015-2016 Trip – July 2016
July 2016 of our yearlong cross country adventure.
2015-2016 Trip – June 2016
June 2016 of our yearlong cross country adventure.
Quotes that resonate with me
quotes that resonate with me
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
— Alfred North Whitehead, Source: An Introduction to Mathematics (1911), chapter 5, in the chapter on Symbolism. Note: From the chapter on symbolism, in a book about mathematics. He was making a point about not having to think.