Blink

One would think I’d be able to cobble together a blog entry more than once a month. Not, like, every day or anything. Maybe twice a month, like the IMBY series I do for the radio, is a more realistic goal. Well, anyway. We went on vacation and just came back. It was also almost [...]

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Extra

It’s Leap Day. The extra day means I can’t say that March has come in like a lion, but… come on. It totally has. When I woke up at 6:15 and checked my phone for the weather, the weather app cheerfully told me it was a balmy 60 degrees. In Urbana, Illinois, not on my [...]

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Stacked Up

God, I was doing so well with the photo challenge and the blogging, but then it all came to a crashing halt, I guess. I’ve enjoyed the hiatus. HI. Photos continued, even though they weren’t being posted. This is a photo from February, not January, and is not part of a challenge. It’s just a [...]

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Blowing, Drifting

Winter weather has finally arrived. It’s just a few inches of snow, but the wind is vicious and it’s cold and our blood has grown thin here in Central IL with our above-average temperatures this winter thus far. The timing of this blizzardette was also bad for me, personally, given that I was out of [...]

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Where I Sleep

Tonight, anyway. After a long day of conferencing and meetings, this bed will do. I have a 7 AM (!) meeting tomorrow and then I’m getting the hell out of here – the internet is too damn slow and winter weather will be approaching and I miss my family and my own bed.  

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Olden Times

I can see both of my parents in this photo of me, and my daughter, too. And my nephew. We were living in Maine when this was taken. Maine happened between Florida and New York, I think, and we lived in a variety of places – a house, an attic, our VW bus at a [...]

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Playing Favorites

Today I got up quite early for a winter Saturday, put on some clothes, gathered my things, and drove about 200 miles south of here to deliver Farmers Market 101. I put together a presentation for fledgling farmers about best practices that can help ensure success at farmers markets… from the market manager’s point of [...]

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Photo A Day, Day 5: Something I Wore

So, in 1997, what was then the three of us went to Ireland. There are many photos from that time, but the only one that’s easily located on my computer is this one:   That’s Cody, age 4, being held by Jim. That’s me wearing almost the exact same outfit I wore to work today. [...]

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Something You Adore

That’s the prompt for today’s Photo A Day challenge. And, so, here is today’s photo. The photo on the left is of Jim, Cody, and I on an improbably flower-strewn path on an equally improbably cloudless day in Ardmore, Ireland in 1997; the note on the right from Jim features his signature beating heart, which [...]

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Rises and Sets

We’re back from our annual family vacation – an actual respite from our workaday & wintry Illinois world. We were with Jim’s parents and Cody on Anna Maria Island, Florida, where moonsets and sunsets look like this: Florida was my childhood home; I was twelve when we left our life there for one in Minnesota, [...]

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