{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} Amidst her absorption of everything in her path (her mind is like a sponge), Duende has decided to try out High School. We are very lucky to have a public charter that caters to the arts (especially now, in this political climate) and the Open HouseContinue reading “Duendesday: Beckoning Life”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Tuesday Happenings: Reality Check
Oh, the sun is shining so nicely these days, interspersed with Spring rains (doing their lovely job of curbing the Browntail Moth population — thank you, thank you, thank you). The garden still awaits our attentions and in true crazy-life-fashion we will get to it in one fell swoop along with getting the house underContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Reality Check”
Monday’s Muse: Mother’s Day Proclamation
Mother’s Day Proclamation: An International Plea For Peace ~ Julia Ward Howe, 1870 (part-time resident of Gardiner, ME) Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking withContinue reading “Monday’s Muse: Mother’s Day Proclamation”
Friday in Pictures: Maine Spring at last
{let the images tell you a story}
Recipe Thursday: Whipped Feta & Tofu Ramp Spread
Just a mere couple of weeks ago we were knee deep in the snow, and now the Forsythia is blooming, Bee Balm shoots are perking up, Fiddleheads are out and about, and the Ramps are fully leafed out. Let the foraging commence! My planted garden Nettle (yes, I had to plant Nettle here on thisContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Whipped Feta & Tofu Ramp Spread”
Friday in Pictures: Big Events
{let the images tell you a story}
The Sign of the Eclipse
We only got to experience the 98% but it was still pretty amazing! It was amazing to use our fancy little lo-tek cardboard glasses to see the moon inch across the sun’s path, it was amazing to see the strange light and shadows — the crazy stillness, it was amazing to see that 2% ofContinue reading “The Sign of the Eclipse”
Duendesday: Island of Bloo
{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} It must be amazing to be a (slightly) middle class white kid in (relative) suburbia…J & I talk about the magick of ‘no’. As if we could have ever told our parents ‘no’ without serious traumatic repercussions. Or just willy-nilly fed ourselves, or took 3-hour baths,Continue reading “Duendesday: Island of Bloo”
Monday’s Musing
Mud Season ~ Tess Taylor We unstave the winter’s tangle.Sad tomatoes, sullen sky. We unplay the summer’s blight.Rotted on the vine, black fruit swings free of strings that bound it.In the compost, ghost melon; in the fields grotesque extruded peppers.We prod half-thawed mucky things. In the sky, starlings eddying.Tomorrow, snow again, old silence. Today, theContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”
Special Spring Snow Day Update
Taking the extra day to catch up on things left by the wayside lately (like the blog, and more seedlings, and the new work in the studio, and spring cleaning) is welcome despite the nervousness of a bad business month. I’m calling it the Spring Snow Doom Storm, though it is not so doomy orContinue reading “Special Spring Snow Day Update”
