You never realize the importance of the passenger seat airbag “ON” light illuminating until it doesn’t any longer. Little things like this are taken for granted. Kinda like how the sun will always rise. Until it doesn’t. So when the light glowed last week (for the first time in over a year) as my daughter…
Thanks to Vermont Natural Coatings for partnering with me on this post. All thoughts and opinions belong to yours truly. When it comes to staining my raised beds, it’s gotta be clean. If you go to any home improvement center looking for exterior wood stain, you’ll find shelf after shelf of options that will do…
For years I’ve feared my garden was nothing more than a siren’s song. A place full of beautifully enticing things birds and insects can’t resist. And, in recent years, the place they’ve unwittingly come to die. My neighborhood has about 300 homes. Fire blight ridden Callery pear trees line the parkway and most of the…
Food factors into everything. How we socialize, celebrate, train, relax, connect, vacation. It’s the vacation part that scared me most when my daughter, Abigail, was diagnosed in 2016, with Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and allergies to soy, nuts and eggs. We can’t fly by the seat of our pants and eat anywhere. Every move…
As I’m writing this, the wind is howling, the furnace hasn’t stopped and the current temperature is -26F in the Chicago area. With the wind chill…-47F. Ugh. The dog is resting at my feet in a sweater to which she’s reluctantly adjusting and all I can think is how grateful I am that the garden…
When my daughter was diagnosed with SIBO and allergies to eggs, soy and nuts, it quickly became apparent that cookies were a no-no. Gasp! If you find an affordable egg-free cookie that meets the criteria to keep her gut healthy, I’m all ears. Since her diagnosis last year, I’ve spent a lot of time in…
