It was a bore, most of the time. My family runs to genius & I was (supposed to be) next… Already blew my social scene in high school by rightaway quick the beginning of freshman year, spelling down the co-captain of the football team. What more was there to lose? Although a fidgety type I […]

I wish you’d left in summer This mother’s heart dies back a little every fall If you’d left when all was blossoming & burgeoning I don’t think I would have felt your leaving not even half as much at all.   The sound of your guitar at midnight Simple chords that showed a young man’s […]

My last marriage was a 3-way relationship.  My husband brought his best buddy, mentor and solace with him.  This guy was no particular friend of mine, but I saw the benefits my husband gained from his presence, and could find nothing that suited as well.  Maybe you’ve run into him yourself– a Mr. Jack Daniels?  […]

Okay… I can almost see that picture in your mind: Ayala stepping out of a (currently imaginary) greenhouse warmed by our local stallion’s stable droppings, with an armload of bounteous beautiful red VINE-RIPENED TOMATOES… Scratch that!!!!!! Actually, I just went under the rosebushes and snipped some chives for a (storebought) salad~~ So much for the […]

dear Grange Gardener!! Well, these days I’ve been gardening instead of writing about it. Actually, I was hibernating from Christmas to Candlemas (around Groundhog’s Day) getting over the Holiday Rush. Theoretically, around Thanksgiving my garden should look as it does now– however, my business is huge in the early winter, just when I had ought […]

Grange Gardener! Well, isn’t the season winding down, though? And I am winding up my garden hoses. Thought of you on the Harvest Moon in September, wasn’t it beautifully enhanced by smoke in the atmosphere? Southern California firesmoke drifts all the way up here. Distress in one place leads to beauty in another… every stick […]

A SHETLAND-INSPIRED SHAWL A shawl so fine it could pass through a wedding ring the stuff of faerie tales, and the defining characteristic of a true Shetland shawl! Actually, though, I’ve seen it done:  my sons sitter, Missy Moses, had a little round Scottish grandmother with a cedar chest that held just such a shawl, […]

dear Grange Gardener GirlFriend!  Thought of you often over the summer, especially as I herded grandsons away from my meager pea patch, which they were intent on feeding to my angora rabbits… YES!! I DID manage to scrounge a couple handfuls outta there for myself, although it took 3 REPLANTINGS to get any… AND… now […]

The body of this entry is directed to agricultural efforts/failures… but I did want you to know I survived Black Sheep Gathering without buying ALL the wool there… and that I DO INDEED have in my Drafts file the instrux for a Shetland-type shawl, be right with you on that, it’s a fun one!!– AND […]

22 April PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mary Ann Meyers 741-6000, x147 For Immediate Release Paula Gourley 682-4374 May is Older Americans Month – Honoring Older Americans Active in the Arts Nationally designated as Older Americans Month, this May the Lane County Coalition of Senior Programs honors six inspiring artists over 60 years of age, who are […]