So… yeah… uh… my cat died, too.

Charles came from the pound in San Francisco about 14 years ago. He was likely part Maine Coon and part something walking down the street when his mom was taking a nap on the sidewalk. If mom was anything like Charles, she was completely inert and didn’t [...]

Since it’s on my own mind… and since Ted asked… here’s a few things I’d suggest doing in the garden this month:

Mason bees: If you haven’t done it already, clean out your mason bee houses.  I just took all my tubes, unrolled them, washed the cocoons off in (very) mild bleach water (don’t worry, they [...]

Hey.  What’s up?

Let me just catch you up since… about November.  Firstly, I am feeling much better.  I’ve been exercising a lot, eating moderately well, and generally trying to take better care of myself.  Stress is a nasty, nasty thing on one’s mind and body. The other thing is that stress is a little like [...]

Readers of all shapes and sizes,

I know I said I’d blog every day about this experience, and I wish I could.  But life throws those unexpected curveballs now and then, and my personal life has taken a bit of a turn to which I need to pay attention.  For what it’s worth, I think I [...]

This has to be short. I wonder, though, if any of my mood change (and not for the better) has anything to do with the sugar withdrawal. Seems that the jury is out on the physiological basis of it, but it makes sense to me that my body would have acclimated itself to [...]