How do you learn about new places? I do the online research, look up houses on real estate sites, look at demographics and planting zones and images, but how I really learn about a new place in the world is through books. We are visiting two different couples and traveling through Alabama for two weeks…
Tag: memoirs
Oh, the Places We Will Go!
I am a voracious reader. Books have created me. Books have helped me define my perceptions, my experiences. Books teach me. Books take me places I may not otherwise visit in my lifetime here. They take me to different periods of time. They transport me to farms and homesteads around the world and in various…
Winter Book List 2019
I am done reading seed catalogues for the season. I got my extensive order in and am dreaming and scheming up all sorts of garden plans. From indoors, on my sofa, with a cup of great coffee and my sleeping farm dog who doesn’t love cold. All that dreaming aside, this is the time for…
The Writer
I know how the memoir will read, it will be filled with humorous stories that make the reader laugh out loud, and ones that make the reader’s breath catch and tears well, and ones that make the reader cheer, and want to visit our new farm. It cannot be written yet. Next year with full intention…
Farmgirl School Turns Two
Time does scurry along, doesn’t it? My second anniversary starting this blog came and went this week. This blog has become a seamless beginning to my morning, an outlet to the world and new friends, and a way to share our crazy farm happenings. But a blog is nothing if it doesn’t have readers and…