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Family Happiness Horses Nicaragua Observations Our Life

Ghosts On Our Bedroom Wall

The pictures on our bedroom wall each contain at least one memory—a captured spirit or ghost, if you will.

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Cookie's Bliss Food Garden

Interview With a Gardener – a journalistic self-portrait

Probing my raison d’etre.

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Dreaming On Winter

Hello Up There

I wake in the bottom of an abyss, filtered blue light licking at the edges of the ice cliffs above.

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Food Garden Life and Death On Winter Thanks Giving

The Last Persimmon – what fruit trees can tell us about the circle of life

It seems to her that humans have only one spring, one summer, one fall, and if they’re lucky — or not, depending on your perspective — one winter.

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Family Life and Death

One Hundred and Twenty Hours

One hundred and twenty hours after my mother took her last breath, we gathered around a deep hole and covered her casket in roses.