A few days ago we had a very sunny day in the Catskills. On a day like that the temperatures in the greenhouse easily reach 100 degrees, even when it is hovering around freezing outside. I had done some harvesting in the morning, and turned the heater off as well as the heating pads under…

I grew up in a family with 6 kids. With all those siblings around something was always going on. My mom was a super creative person, she was the Children’s Librarian at the local library just around the corner. My dad used to tease her for always having “busy fingers”, as she never just sat…

For the last several years after a particularly rotten day at work, or a bad snarl of traffic, or when I noticed one more nice thing about where we lived was no longer nice, I would come home and say exactly this. It got to be I was saying it on an ever-increasing basis, then…