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The Writing on the Walls

I’ve had the urge for quite some time to write on my walls.  Literally.  This is a bit unconventional, I know.  And not usually recommended when renting an apartment. Lucky for me, I’m not the only one who wants to be able to write on my walls and still get a security deposit back.  They…

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Butterfly Tomatoes

After exchanging pleasantries with the farmer from whom I buy my produce at the Saturday Farmer’s Market I said, “Show me something I’ve never heard of before.”  He hesitated for a moment.  I went on.  “Every time I come here, you have something I’ve never seen.  Last time I was here, I got kohlrabi from…

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Timing

“I was thinking that I’d take this year to plan, and then take off next July,” I explained to a friend over the phone as I sat in my room in Rhode Island, waves crashing just outside my window.  Traveling makes me not exactly long for home, but long for more travel.  “First, I’ll go…

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On Invitations and Planning

On Friday, a woman was described to me this way: “She was the kind of person who never turned down an invitation.  She said if she did, they might stop asking.”  I’ve seen that from both sides.  I’ve stopped asking people that continually turn me down.  I’ve also been the one to repeatedly turn down…

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A Memoir of Moving

I was reading a  book called When Wanderers Cease to Roam.  As a wanderer, I wondered if I’d find some secret to staying put.  But it wasn’t that kind of book.  It was a woman’s month-by-month collection of watercolors and drawings and written memories of her life abroad and her life in the town where…

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Pictures from the Farm

So when people heard I’d be volunteering at an organic farm for a week they asked, “So what will you be doing?”  And I really wasn’t too sure.  “Whatever they need I think – harvesting, weeding, planting…”  Turns out I was right!  Here’s some pics of what we worked on yesterday:)

The Tumbleweed:)

Saw the Tumbleweed Fencl today.  It’s even cuter in person.  Will post pics and write some more on Saturday (won’t be home til late Friday night!).

A Tiny House…and A Garden?

“I just can’t see you driving a truck,” said my mother the other day during our discussion about the possibility of me buying or building a Tumbleweed Tiny House.  What’s a Tumbleweed Tiny House?  Well, basically it’s a hundred (or so) square foot house you tow around and plop down wherever you want to live. …

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