New To-Do List

I am back to making To-Do Lists. The cookbook and curriculum consume most of my time. However, my disheveled house and yard cry for attention. How to prioritize? I should pull the weeds, but later today during a writing break, I am going to set up all the bird feeders and fill them to the…

Spring?

Everyone proclaims that spring is coming! Store ads, billboards, and blogs are infectiously optimistic. Ten seed catalogs sit on my coffee table. However, when I look around I see that the sun is still lower on the horizon, creating long shadows when I take photos. The nights are long and cold and the days punctuated…