Month: September 2013

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Praying Mantises!!

Yesterday, when my son, Travis, and I were doing a bit of gardening, I happened to notice an odd shaped leaf and as I continued to study it, it moved! If you didn’t read my earlier post about this, I hung an egg sac of praying mantises on my lilac tree back in the spring,...

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The Arts: Feeding your Soul

I’m deviating from my usual summer subject matter to bring up a line of thought that is always in the back of my mind: the arts as a career, is it worth it?  The main reason I’m rethinking the whys and wherefores is that my children are both artists, and for their generation it’s even...

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Autumn Challenges

I’m ashamed to realize it’s been almost a month since my last blog post.  This should be a good time of year to be doing a lot of gardening and therefore, for me, a lot of writing about it.  However, I’ve been back at work for a couple of weeks and, geez, that takes up...

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Back care for the (Lazy) Gardener

I swung my legs over the side of the bed on Sunday morning and immediately felt a muscle spasm. I felt one more, then it subsided; so I rolled out my yoga mat and lay down, face first, to let my back relax. After a few minutes I tried getting up, and that was successful...