Organic Mama, Ficus murderess

I am a gardener by choice. and I take pride in the fact that I have had two successive years of a truly abundant and wonderful organic garden. My husband and I have grown everything from medicinal and culinary herbs to vegetables in a myriad of colours and I have stood there, taking it [...]

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Merry Everything!

As my children play keep away with a foursquare (we used to call that game “Champ”) ball, my puppy and older dog are running to and fro maniacally. I expect everyone to pass out soon, kids included, as evey creature in that room is panting heavily. There is a lot of giggling going [...]

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Enough about Dogs

TEN THINGS OganicFam Is Doing Over Break
1. We love to do art projects so we will most likely be making more Sculpey bake clay creatures. Ever used this stuff? My daughters have created so much in the way of tiny bears, dragons, gargoyles, fairies, snoopy and woodstock, knights etc. over the years that [...]

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Musing on Writing

Sleeping on golden-hued hardwood,
my puppy twitches
as she chases ephemeral rabbits.
Perhaps she’ll pounce and devour in her sleep as well.
Unless dream rabbit wins.

This morning, I was planning my two sections of remedial English I will soon teach at a local community college, when this poemlet spilled out. [...]

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Bullshit Overload

My inlaws are not speaking to us.
They leave messages on our answering maching directed at my daughters and suggest in the message that perhaps Husband and I aren’t relaying their messages.
Truth is, we don’t hide anything from our kids; they know the lengthy list of stupid reasons their grandparents choose to stop talking to us [...]

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Settling In

Dog relationships are complicated. I think I am in for just how complicated.
It’s been a lot of touch and go, hovering and scooping kind of situation. The older male dog (three years old) and the four-month old female, both intact, are settling into a nice relationship, with boundaries being established. SHe has learned to leave [...]

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The Puppy has Landed!

Nothing happens as planned, particularly as it relates to flight times. Our family has been anticipating the arrival of our new puppy, Sephira for months now; ever since the breeder in Israel alerted us to the pending litter, we have been discussing names and protocols and the nitty gritty of incorporating new puppy into our [...]

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Birthday Blog

Birthday Blog
To hold the same views at 40 as we held at 20 is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.-Robert Louis Stevenson
Monday morning FIRST THING her time, my dear friend NF called from Vegas [...]

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More about ME

More about ME
It’s an interesting proposal, to examine your life and list things you think are interesting. Narcissism is us, eh? Well, when I listed these things (in my head, while riding a yellow bus on the way to a field trip), I found myself giggling. To myself. About myself. [...]

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A new Place

Sometimes, when the path is very resistant and the horizon (particularly when suggested by a trusted friend) is very appealing, it’s time to see what’s over the next hill. I am moving here and after I figure out what’s what, will be up and running, er writing at these new digs very soon
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So welcome. [...]

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