I have bee hives in the corner of my garden.  I would love to call myself a beekeeper but I am reserving that distinction until I get through my first year and have actually managed to keep my bees.  That’s what I think makes you a beekeeper.  Otherwise you’re just a bee-loser.  Or a bee-used-to-haver.  [...]

Picking beans is a tedious task during which the mind tends to wander to all manner of subjects.  A couple buckets down the row I started thinking about beanstalks.  Surprising I know, but true nonetheless.  Then I started thinking about Jack and the Beanstalk.  If you are familiar with the fairy tale you might recall [...]

I will never be a flight attendant.  The realization smacked me right in my midlife while waiting to pick up a loved one at an airport recently.  And oh how I had once wanted to be a flight attendant!  It was the second occupation to capture my young imagination, the first being a server at [...]

In the last two weeks I have gone on three garden tours.  What a lot of green thumbs there are! The gardens were amazing.  It makes me look at my own catastrophe I call a garden and want to weep. While it’s true that when we first moved here there was no yard at all, [...]