by Jeannie | Mar 12, 2018 | Tis The Season
Mother Winter (she who should not be named at this point in March) had a harder time making up her mind about her choice in how to precipitate than my daughter had in choosing a prom dress. First rain, then sleet, then hail then big, wet snow, just as my daughter...
by Jeannie | Jan 18, 2018 | Design & Garden Tips
Sometimes I refer to myself as a “Garden Evangelist.” It’s a fetching little nickname and it’s true because I’m on a quest to convert good folk to see the light and come on over to digging, planting and growing. But there’s more to this. I believe, to my core, that...
by Jeannie | Oct 19, 2017 | Tis The Season
Footloose and Footstools… Miss Parker, my fourth grade music teacher, was really cool. She sported tiny, oval-shaped, gold-rimmed glasses, had long, straight dark hair, and played acoustic guitar as accompaniment to our singing. This was 1973, so it was all perfect....
by Jeannie | Jun 1, 2017 | Design & Garden Tips
Dead Wood… I perfected the fine art of eye rolling when I was thirteen. So charming. I’m guessing I came to this expression in response to something my father said when I thought I knew way more than he about the world and that he was purposefully...
by Jeannie | May 25, 2017 | Tis The Season
“This is how I shall measure time….” I can’t find the poem. I found a short essay from which the poem was crafted, but the poem may be lost, which is not surprising since there have been many moves and nearly three decades between. The search...