Chutney is Life?

    Watching all the turmoil around me, sometimes my attitude seems to be a bit fluffy. Maybe some of that is on purpose.  I try to maintain a certain amount of denial so that the seriousness of it all doesn’t weigh on me too heavily. I try to  let God carry the heavy load  in [...]

Summer Calls and Kids Help It

  Summer is at midpoint and I notice myself and people around me alternating between a panic and plodding moes. We like a collective ant colony movealong the path of seasonal tasks and pleasure. Produce and blossoms come in waves and I pick and pack away. The waves and the summer sun beckon and I [...]

spring?

  I hear a faint tick tick tick tick tick tick. No it isn’t my watch. It is the steady drip I discovered today from snow melting off the roof and dripping in through a missing shingle, onto my hutch and then down the back onto the kitchen floor!
  This! in the beginning of April [...]