Posts under ‘Travel’

Knock knock knock. Hello? Are you out there? Yeah, you. There on the other side of the screen. I know…it has been a long more-than-a-year of neglecting this blog, and I always swore to myself I wasn’t going to be one of those bloggers who apologized to their readers for an absence, so trust me, [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

I’ve been back from Burning Man for a week, and I’m already planning next year’s trip. I may be a girl who loves her oceans, but when you take a dried lakebed and fill it with community and creativity and ridiculous art and cars that look like yachts and butterflies and music that goes 24 [...]

Once upon a time, there was a gardener, and she wasn’t actually very good at gardening, and she also, apparently, wasn’t very good at writing all the well-intentioned posts she had on her list to write. The end. Translation: I have much to share with you, good readers of the Interwebz, but life has been [...]

“There’s a restaurant downtown I think you’d like,” said my friend Amy when I visited her in Madison, Wis. last week. Oh my friends, how they know me. Amy was, of course, totally right, and that is how we ended up at Harvest, a small, warm space on the square that features the state capitol, [...]

Gardeners, plant and nature lovers can join in Green Thumb Sunday every week. Visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Back in July, I attended The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival, an event that gave me just the tiniest taste of what Burning Man might be like. In an empty lot in an industrial section of Oakland, a number of artists had installed pieces of varying sizes, all of which featured some form of interaction with [...]

I realize it’s high time to get back to garden blogging, but I’m going to go ahead and admit…my head and heart are still a little bit stuck in Black Rock City, where no plant of the garden variety can live, but where metal flowers bloom from the desert. I have a story to tell [...]

National Farmer’s Market Week is August 2-8, a week where even the markets in the harshest zones of the U.S. climate should be bursting with amazing produce. Tomato season’s in full swing, people. Take. Advantage. (And if you don’t like tomatoes, buy some anyway and just mail ‘em to me.) Over at The Huffington Post, [...]