I might be giving away my Pennsylvania secrets here (even though this southern kind of PA didn’t hit my life until my pre-teens/early teens) but Stromboli is a blessed thing. A very small regional pocket of goodness (other areas try to mimic or claim, but it’s just not the same), and yes, my mom makesContinue reading “Recipe Thursday – Bread Book: Stromboli”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Friday in Pictures: Sweet Steam
{let the images tell you a story}
Tuesday Happenings: when we’re not looking
Last night I woke up and tiptoed downstairs, my beautiful tulips were sleeping deep sleeps. The moon was 99% full according to my Moon Phase app – hazy in the thin cloud cover but still illuminating across the homestead. I could make out the grape arbor, the late lilac, the burning bush and hard linesContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: when we’re not looking”
Duendesday: Active Engagements
{life with a curious and crazy 12 yr old} So many activities lately. We are not the type of family that is heavily scheduled. In fact, we cannot fathom that kind of life. The to-ing and fro-ing and the faux relationships that somehow have to be forged to make it happen. We are pretty discerningContinue reading “Duendesday: Active Engagements”
Happenings on a Tuesday
What happens around here on Tuesdays? Lately, J gets up early (not as early as on Monday when he hits the shop at 3:15, on Tuesdays he sleeps in until 5…whoa – ha!) and heads to the shop to bake for our Community Supported Bakery members (which will now be a Saturday thing, too). IContinue reading “Happenings on a Tuesday”
A Musing for Monday
book at hand: “Recently I’ve been thinking about the body and bush aesthetics, or just like Indigenous aesthetics, and spending time thinking about mosquito bits – picking berries and picking tea, and like, paying for them with your blood…I was being chewed up by mosquitoes there and I started wondering, do mosquitoes have blood memory?Continue reading “A Musing for Monday”
Tuesday: Sunshine Love
Well, we’re still building it but they are coming: the beekeepers (and charmers), the orchardists, the punks and secret anarchists, the poets, the curious, and the bread lovers; locavores and those who want community connection, responsible world choices, and perceptions shifted. It can be a challenge to readjust to how we expect things. Since theContinue reading “Tuesday: Sunshine Love”
Duendesday: Winterings
{life with a curious and crazy 12 yr old} Time was (not so long ago), you couldn’t keep our little gal indoors. Especially at the sight of snow (or rain). We called her a little Siberian baby because she’d leap out into the cold – sledding, snow-forting, making snow faeries, climbing trees, journeying around theContinue reading “Duendesday: Winterings”
Monday’s Muse for the Snow Moon
Moon by Billy Collins The moon is full tonightan illustration for sheet music,an image in Matthew Arnoldglimmering on the English Channel,or a ghost over a smoldering battlefieldin one of the history plays. It’s as full as it wasin that poem by Coleridgewhere he carries his year-old soninto the orchard behind the cottageand turns the baby’sContinue reading “Monday’s Muse for the Snow Moon”
Tuesday Happenings
You blink, and it’s Tuesday again. As we settle in to the store/bakery space we turn our attentions back to the homestead. Rearranging, cleaning, and purging all make a good Mid-Winter focus for us. Punxatawny Phil calls me home every year to consider how I want the rest of my Winter to go – itContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings”
