Garden Progress

We have officially eaten food grown in our little garden -- and it was good! Early July progress (I need to get a picture now, things are much fuller): Last week the harvest from those green beans gave us our side dish for dinner. And again -- they were surprisingly good. The plants themselves seem …

Garden Update: It’s All Happening

I shouldn't say how long this plan took, but it was all of January. Thanks to a 65 degree Saturday in mid-February, things got underway! First up: the bed for strawberries. Off to Lowes for lumber. To keep my costs down, I wanted to make a bed out of a single piece of wood. I settled on a …

2017: Bumper Crop or Bust

At least once a year I spend an unreasonable amount of time romanticizing vegetable gardening and making my plans. “Everyone says homegrown vegetables taste delicious! Think of the money we’ll save not buying carrots!” I imagine the kids, faces smudged with sweat and mud, filling baskets with our yard's bountiful yield without throwing dirt on one another or "accidentally" spraying …

The Cloffice

When we learned we were expecting another child, our first impulse was to have the young'uns share a room. We arrived at this decision partially because we figured it had been done by millions of others, but also because we'd run out of rooms. "We can always convert the office to another room if it …

American University Puts on its Dancing Shoes

Oh my. Does this mean people outside of the DC/New Jersey corridor will actually know where my alma mater is? "Wait, they won?" came the response from one friend after I sent a celebratory text message following the game. That reply sums up the past eight years, when American has flirted with a bid three …