TweetFinally, after way more time than I care to think about, my family is reuniting in Arkansas next week. Immigration issues are done and we can now restart our life. I’m trying to revamp my blog and start posting on here again. So here’s a little funny list of the differences between Washington State, where [...]

TweetI recently noticed that there’s a lot of little green bugs on the leaves, are they bad for the plant and future produce? What should I do to get rid of them if they’re bad? Admin answer: Check out this great video with ways to get rid of aphids, flies, worms, and more that are [...]

Tweet Got potato bugs in your garden? Aphids? Cabbage worms?  Caterpillars, flies, pests, parasites, or slugs of any kind?  No problem. Your solution is here.  Cheap, easy, and homeade, using 3 ingredients: soap, hot peppers, and water. Vegetable Garden Home made bug spray using Ivory soap and hot peppers. Visit The Bayou Gardener in Avoyelles [...]

It all makes me realize that my baby’s getting older (and therefore, so am I).

Food is, of course, the most basic of our needs beyond water and air (and toilet paper!). Isn’t it funny how we take these simple things for granted? You breathe in and out, you pull on the roll, you turn on the tap, you pop a Lean Cuisine into the microwave, or answer, “Yes”, to “Fries with that?” Easy, automatic, instant. But of course, it’s not. All of these things, with the exception of air, require a complicated combination of infrastructure and workforce to get to us. We only think about it when the system breaks down (imagine a toilet paper factory worker’s strike!), or when we pay our bills.

TweetI wrote this back in June, when it happened, and since then I haven’t even felt like writing on this blog. On top of that, we’ve had various computer issues. Anyway, now I’m getting organized again, and I feel I have to put this on, for women who might be having the same problem: This [...]

TweetI’m always interested when I see an “Oprah’s Book Club” seal on a novel, and I’ve never yet been disappointed. They are always haunting, thought-provoking, realistic stories. Once again, I was not disappointed. The story is from the point of view of the 14 year old daughter (Connie) of a Vermont midwife (Sibyl). The girl [...]

TweetThis is one of those rare perfect books that I will want to keep forever to loan out to friends in need of enlightenment or encouragement. It has everything: a good storyline; characters that are real, complex and that you would want to meet in real life; it’s funny; it talks about the Northwest US [...]

TweetWhale Rider is a lovely little movie about a rural Maori town in New Zealand and their search for a leader. It’s about the struggle for a little girl to be accepted, about the struggle between tradition and modern ideas, fulfilling your dreams, and about love within a family and within a community. It introduces [...]

TweetThis is a neat little book that I read almost in one day. I found a lot of myself in it. Some of you may think that this statement is odd. After all, it’s about a British girl growing up in a small town under a severely religious, perhaps deranged family, to find out that [...]