by Andi | Aug 30, 2013 | Meander, Uncategorized, Wedding
We made a big change in farm life this week. It was a hard change for many reasons, but a good one for many more. We traded in Philip’s pick-up for a more fuel-efficient Subara Impreza that I named Trapper after the seal in the children’s books. That... by Andi | Aug 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
50 years. That is long in the life of our young country. That is brief in the life of a human. My father was 17 years old. I was just 11 years from being born. I don’t know what Dr. King would say about now, 50 years later. I don’t know if he’d be... by Andi | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized, Written and Wrought
I feel the ache always in my lower back, the way that our planet’s slinging around a ball of fire pulls me to the earth, tugging out the way I carry myself through all the day – stuck out, held up, bolstered. Here, in shavasana, I give all that up. I lay... by Andi | Aug 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
All night, the fear. Tossing me from side to side on 600 thread-count cotton sheets that my future mother-in-law bought. Waking to think, if they arrested someone and didn’t find her, is she dead? Is that what they are looking for just barely beyond the woods... by Andi | Aug 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
So much is going on today. I’m going to make our first batch of wedding salsa using a recipe I’m going to wing from suggestions. Wish me luck. I’m finishing a manuscript for a client. I’m preparing the garden so that I can put cold crops in....