Born in Montreal, I now make my home in the American Northeast, where I teach English at a small community college, and also work as a freelance editor and publisher for a small enterprise. I blog because I find that I often interact best with my life when I write about it, because this absurd life inspires me, and because I love to write.
I am the mother of two fabulously articulate and genuinely funny daughters (born in ‘95, ‘97) and the wife of a Naturopathic doctor. I shudder at bad grammar, poor punctuation and horrible spelling. I love the well-formed sentence and the insidious insult equally and am known to perform spoonerisms whether I want to or not. Like lean griefy vegetables or sparking pots.
Finally, I try to live and raise my kids as sustainably and as organically as possible and am the proud owner of an ass-kicking garden where I grow vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants. One Israel Canaan dog has deigned to live with us and helps make my life that much more hair covered and drool spattered. It’s a life!
Is there a way to email you? I’m enjoying your blog and want to send you a poem written in spoonerisms I think you’ll chuckle over.
I swear I will never send you a group email, a chain letter, any spam, or even add your address to my address book. I just want to send you “Rean Clooms.”
I love the range of emotion in your blog and your humor. I also adore a fellow lover of peppering a swear word here and there! Yay!
I thought the piece on the deceased writer/prof was excellent. A line a day. Worthy goal.
Peace, shalom, salaam,
Cindy
Hello Organic Mama
Just stumbled upon your blog and am really enjoying it. I too an working on the organic life and am already planning my garden for the spring. My girls and pets love to graze there all summer long.
Thanks for sharing.
Cathy in Kemptville, Canada
Thank you, Cathy!
I have just received my first order of organic seeds and I cannot wait for the white stuff outside to disappear so I can get in there and start planting. What are you going to grow?
: )
Bad grammar makes me cringe too, so I feel compelled to mention that ‘ass’ starts with a vowel and should therefore be preceded by ‘an.’
R8chel; You’re right, of course. It’s been a long time since I wrote that and I obviously proofread it poorly. Thanks for pointing that error out!