The ultimate scolding: sit in the corner and think about what you had done.

So we have had time to think, and time to adjust – are we back to normal, or the “New Normal”?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Welcome back to me, by me. I have not written in weeks. And you can tell by the way this blank page is intimidating me. But the words, and their subtleties are vying to get out. So, I must persist. Why I have not written is a mundane, yet lofty reason. Mundane because I was …

Cuppa tea Dicky?

In between the day job in the city, the evening job of studying (again!) and the governance jobs during the week, I’m trying to find ways to make living off the land work in today’s society.

3 lessons this weekend, in the veggie garden, and in life

I have been feeling the inspiration growing in my mind since yesterday’s harvest in the butternut patch. And this morning, after a “Tête-À-Tête” with my technical advisor working side by side, I can no longer delay, The dishes will have to wait until I have penned the three things my veggie patch tutored me on …

Reflections on the bounty of mother earth

Where there is a will, there is a way. Grow your own, whether it be vegetables, or a new beginning.