It’s planting season around here! This weekend, my husband will start about 200 onion seeds. Meanwhile, safely tucked under some row cover are 50 garlic bulbs just doing their thing (although they were planted last fall). In the next few weeks, we will establish our “grow operation” by the fireplace room sliding glass doors completeContinue reading “New shoots”
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Beware the Ides of March?
I work for myself. Just let that sink in. After 39 years of working for others, I work for myself. That’s pretty stinking cool. I am now past the anxiety and the excited stage. I have settled into the idea that life, somehow, is going to be different. I just have to experience it first.Continue reading “Beware the Ides of March?”
When simplicity reigns…
In the winddown from my old job, I have an hour-long zoom today and some follow-up work. That’s it. Thanks to amazing kitty sitters who also cleaned up after my pride the day we came home from vacation, the house is pretty tidied up. As a result, I sit here with just three days leftContinue reading “When simplicity reigns…”
What success looks like…
When I was a CEO, I used to ask a question that drove my staff nuts: what does success look like? Whenever we would start a project, I would ask those five little words, mostly to groans, eye rolls and a few half-hearted laughs. It became our running joke and I rolled with it. DeepContinue reading “What success looks like…”
All things calm and quiet.
It’s time to begin anew. I had originally typed, “In a few weeks, my new life begins.” But after some serious thinking, I will correct that: my new life begins. No “in a few weeks” for me. As much as these next few weeks are the end of the end, they are also the beginningContinue reading “All things calm and quiet.”
A simpler peace
It’s a typical Tuesday here. There is just enough snow on the ground to remind you that it’s winter (although it should melt by the end of the day) and so far there have been at least two kitty dust-ups. Both were playful but one resulted in a missing collar and the other sent aContinue reading “A simpler peace”
Laundry soap
There are few things that are symbolic of my new life like making my own laundry soap. When a friend once mentioned that she made her own, I didn’t value it like I do now. Seriously, I thought: “well, that’s a waste of time since you can just go to the grocery and buy it.”Continue reading “Laundry soap”
The Yuppie Homesteader 