In the interests of full disclosure, I have to admit I don’t actually have a writing cave. I have a desk, piled high with Very Important Papers that need to be filed, books for research, books on writing, and a snake’s nest of charging cables for our iThingys. It faces a window that looks out … Read more
I’m drowning in tomatoes here. This spring, when I had my dozens and dozens of baby tomato plants sitting out, my husband said, “You’ve started too many tomatoes.” And I retorted, “I did not. We will use all the tomatoes we get.” I said it very grandly, very confidently, the way a person who hasn’t … Read more
The common conception of cells is that they are blebby sorts of things, amoeba-like, floating in a nutrient soup with everything they need to survive safely contained within their membrane. Maybe an illustration from a biology textbook is coming to mind even now. Neurons aren’t like that at all. Yes, they have a round, blebby … Read more
This is a Cherokee Moon and Stars watermelon that I picked from the garden just this morning. Isn’t it lovely? You might not be familiar with it, since you can’t find it in the store. It’s not “commercially viable”. It has…seeds. Imagine that, a fruit with seeds. Like most heirloom varieties, it almost went extinct, … Read more