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CYBER MONDAY FREEBIE
Just a short little promotional post today. I didn’t get this out ahead of time, because it’s my first time trying it and I wasn’t sure how, or if, it would work… Anyway, the listing seems to have gone...
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A Long Row to Hoe
On Tuesday, I graduated. Again. It was a smaller affair this time, sans caps and gowns. The coveted prize was to trade in the paper name tag we clung to all year for the official orange Oregon...
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The Zombie Apocalypse and Other Things You Should Be Worried About
Visiting Seed Savers Heritage Farm in Decorah, Iowa (Photo credit: Chiot’s Run) There’s this thing I’ve been doing a lot lately (no doubt to the annoyance of my family) where in reference to, say, junk...
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Tomatoes: Gateway Drug to Gardening
State fruit – Tomato (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The idea isn’t new. If you don’t believe me, just Google it. No one may really know who the first person to identify tomatoes as the gateway drug to...
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Gardening Fiction for Spring
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Big Ag Has Won the War On Food In New Middle Grade Series New book series imagines a future where gardening is illegal SALEM, Ore. March 17, 2013—In S. Smith’s exciting new...
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Spring
Spring Poem I need a poem for spring I check my chapbook—the one I wrote two years ago. I look under my bed; wander through the house, searching. And through each window the rising sun peeks. It’s out...
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Poetry Without Words
Today I wanted to do one final post related to the weekend at Drift Creek Camp. I found the creeping, clinging, crawling, hanging moss and lichen to be so awesome that I tried for quite some time to...
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Garden Talk
This was the gift people could sign up to win. (Wagon not included.) On Saturday I spent six hours sitting behind a table advertising myself as an author. It was Earth Day at the Oregon Garden, and...
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Time Keeps Rolling On
I thought the time might be right for a general “update” blog. Update on what, you say? No, not the obvious, not THE BOOK. Just stuff; former posts, what I’ve been up to lately, the garden, the family....
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In Praise of the Scarlet Runner Bean
I wanted to write an ode to the Scarlet Runner Bean, but instead I’ll settle for an essay. For now, at least. The first time I heard someone talk about a Scarlet Runner Bean they did it with a...
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