I'm okay with staying home again. What I'm not okay with is the number of people who still choose not to get vaccinated.

- life speeds up - each season feels shorter than it did last year - the need to make every moment count becomes more urgent.

One Minnesota Writer is taking a vacation.

How well are you taking care of yourself? And a recipe.

Summer mornings are wonderful even after a sleepless night and an old dog who wakes before the sun's up.

I walked up to the garden and gently bent the flower stalk toward me to see what was up. I found a little pile of bees.

Flowers give everything, nothing held back, lovely in every stage of life.

What Mick and I really want to do with our gardens goes beyond having pretty flowers. We put soil health and bee health at the top ...

Poppies, bleeding hearts, and the anniversary of George Floyd's death.

...Petals fluttered from the tree with every breath of wind, came to rest in the garden and float upon the water in the birdbath....