I am a one-note wonder in the summer, and that note is vegetables. If there were a reality TV show that consisted of nothing but various people competing to find something to do with all the squash coming out of their garden, I would totally watch … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: vegetable rules
July 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
My husband is something of a city boy and it's taken him years to internalize all the complicated rules around gardening, vegetables, and their storage. In fact, really, he's still learning. It's a lifelong process. But I thought for other folks … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: random thoughts
July 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
- I'm in the mountains this week while our daughter goes to camp, which is wonderful. But it's a little hard to leave the garden this time of year. I picked about four turning tomatoes just before I left. One of those was only barely ripe enough to … [Read more...]
Where are you from and some possible answers
June 25, 2014 By 2 Comments
Kentucky Just Kentucky. You won’t know the name of the town, anyway. Picture what you will. Let your uninformed imagination run wild. South of the Mason-Dixon line. Barely. A border state in the Civil War. Brother on brother, and all of … [Read more...]
Books I’ve read so far this summer
June 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
It's that time of summer when the waiting begins. Going outside at least several times a day to check the length of the little eggplant forming. The size of the pepper. The color of the tomatoes hanging on the vine. Before the next wave of … [Read more...]
The language of gardening
June 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
In summer, we speak the language of gardens. Of vegetables and rainstorms. The rabbits are eating the beet greens. There are grubs in the radishes. The raccoons will find the corn no matter what you do. They will plunder it in the precise moment … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: the membership
June 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
I went home this weekend for Father's Day and found out a teacher of mine from high school had a stroke. He'd been retired for many years, but as a teacher, he was prone to throwing erasers at students from time to time (mostly when they were … [Read more...]
A night at the game
June 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
- We sat behind home plate, and things look different back there. From that angle, sometimes even I can tell the difference between a ball and a strike before the umpire makes the call. - From where we sat, you could see some of the … [Read more...]
My morning ritual (the summer version)
June 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
- Wake up at 6:00. Toss and turn just enough to wake up my husband. Realize it is 6:00. Go back to sleep. - Wake up again at 6:50 when my husband's alarm goes off. Watch my husband get up. Some mornings, watch my husband turn off the alarm and get … [Read more...]
About The Hit
May 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
I love that there's a literary journal dedicated to sport and literature--Stymie Magazine. The connection between sports and writing seems natural to me. My husband says a baseball season is like a Russian novel. I guess a football game might be a … [Read more...]
