Never thought I’d spend my retirement years researching jet fuel, but here I am at nearly seventy, reading technical papers…
I never imagined I’d become the neighborhood lady with boxes of broken electronics in her basement, but here we are.…
You know what really opened my eyes to how wasteful travel had become? It wasn’t some dramatic moment on a…
Back in my day, we thought swimming pools were supposed to burn your eyes and turn your hair green. I…
Last Wednesday morning, I’m standing in my kitchen at 7 AM, staring down at my twenty-year-old coffee maker that just…
I’m standing in the produce aisle at Shaw’s last Tuesday, holding an avocado and doing math in my head. The…
My old computer sounds like it’s about to take flight these days. You know that wheezing, grinding noise when the…
You know, I never thought much about what was in swimming pool water until my arthritis started acting up worse…
Four years ago, I would have laughed if someone told me I’d be mixing mud with my bare feet to…
I need to come clean about something that’s been bothering me for months now. Here I am, a 68-year-old woman…
You know, when you’re going through your deceased husband’s belongings, you find yourself thinking about waste in ways you never…
Last July, I stood in my backyard looking at what used to be tomato plants and had to laugh to…
You know, there’s something almost embarrassing about admitting how long it took me to understand that my garden wasn’t supposed…
Last Thanksgiving, my fourteen-year-old grandson Jake caught me completely off guard. I was feeling pretty good about myself – had…
The first time I tried making biochar in my backyard, I came dangerously close to turning my tool shed into…