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Oatmeal

Calm and Reasonable

7 min readOct 9, 2021

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Trees: The Ballad of Harry Whiskers

I live in the coastal mountains in northern California. My house is in a redwood forest, nestled in a mountain, along a meandering creek…

10 min readSep 11, 2021

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Trees: The Ballad of Harry Whiskers

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Tree: Prepping

I have lived in many homes along these creeks and rivers. I learned to choose houses that are well above the predicted 100 year flood line…

2 min readSep 3, 2021

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Tree: Prepping

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poem the 4th: it’s all in my head

it’s all in your head

1 min readSep 3, 2021

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poem the 4th: it’s all in my head

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Trees: A Night on the Town

Only a few hardy souls live here and my neighbors are welcoming but far between. This is a place where monthly trips along narrow winding…

2 min readSep 2, 2021

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Trees: A Night on the Town

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Trees

It is the cool of winter in Northern California, and tucked in a dark forest of second growth redwoods is where my toddler daughter and I…

3 min readNov 6, 2020

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Trees

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Women Still Remember

In mourning the passing of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg it feels that not only did we lose an icon of the women’s movement, we are losing the…

2 min readSep 27, 2020

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Women Still Remember

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Church Lady Cookbook Dialogs: Waste Not Want Not: The Kale and Pig Hocks Edition

Don’t get me wrong. I like kale. I use it in salads and love it with Swiss cheese and some honey mustard dressing as a low cost nutritious…

3 min readMay 7, 2020

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Church Lady Cookbook Dialogs: Waste Not Want Not: The Kale and Pig Hocks Edition

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The Church Lady Cookbook Dialogs: Sugar, Sugar, Ah Honey, Honey, You’ve Got Me Wanting You

In 1975 I learned to bake during the sugar shortage. I was the most unlikely and reluctant candidate for the position of housewife that…

4 min readApr 21, 2020

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The Church Lady Cookbook Dialogs: Sugar, Sugar, Ah Honey, Honey, You’ve Got Me Wanting You

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The Church Lady Cookbook Dialogs: Eggs and Rising to the Occasion

I blame my cholesterol. Eggs have been out of my diet for a while so the egg shortage is something that has not affected my diet in any…

2 min readApr 15, 2020

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The Church Lady Cookbook Dialogs: Eggs and Rising to the Occasion

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writer, reader, introvert, feminist. has lots to say, some of it interesting. will smile for kittens. will not smile for you. she/her.

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