The Solution to Crisis

I’ve been in bed for the better part of the last three days. It was a culmination of things that laid me down. It was overcommitment and foolish optimism and the fierce demand of the garden in July. It was our booming and brilliant family colliding in my home at the tail end of a […]

The Story in a Seed

Tiny seed starting pots with seedlings growing.

Years ago, when my oldest son Jackson was around six years old, my husband asked him what he thought I might like for my birthday. Jackson thought long and hard, and as if a light bulb suddenly burned above his head, he exclaimed, “I know! Catalogs!”