Throughout my childhood, we had a clothesline. It was just out the back door of the house, right past the laundry room. In many ways, t...

One of my New Year's resolutions is to read more books. It feels weird to type that, because I've been a bookworm since I learne...

About six months ago, I chopped close to fifteen inches off my hair. Since I don't dye my hair and because I'd worn it up so muc...

This month marks the two-year anniversary of my husband and I becoming full-fledged beekeepers. I love telling people that I keep bees - ...

Years ago, I took a gardening class about flowerbed design and soon found out that my method of flowerbed design was all wrong. What was my...

Spring is finally here and with that comes gardening again! I turned over my garden beds a few days ago and, man, it was nice getting my ...

A couple fairly new developments, resulting from Christmas gifts I got a couple months ago: One -- I'm kinda sorta falling in lov...

There are a few topics that once you get me talking about them, I pretty much can't shut up: Mary Poppins , natural childbirth (two babi...