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Mackerel

I have written about four hundred poems in just one year. And I’ve drawn over five hundred sketches. How did I do it? One day at a time. One stroke at a time. One word at a time. I made a simple goal for myself: write one poem a day. And by setting that simple […]

Soup for Breakfast

Head full of snot. Achy, achy. If a cold bowl of cereal just won’t cut it, try soup for breakfast. Whenever I get a cold, I like to make a version of pozole for breakfast. The warm chicken broth soothes my sore throat and relieves pressure on my sinuses. Traditionally, pozole is served with roasted […]

Why Do We Go Trick or Treating?

My son Elijah asked me a brilliant question this morning. Why do we go trick or treating? Leading up to Halloween he asked several other questions. I’ve distilled my answers for you, so that you can reflect on how you may want to answer your child’s curious questions. Why do we go trick or treating? Halloween is […]

Banana Muffins

You know the drill. Child begs for bananas. You buy a bunch. Child eats one, then refuses to eat the rest. But I thought you wanted bananas? I don’t like bananas! So you’ve got rotting black banana flavored snot on your kitchen counter. Do you scrape it off with a spoon and throw it in […]

Save a Bee, Go Pesticide Free

Time magazine recently published an article on the critical role bees play in our agricultural systems and how pesticides are contributing to their deaths. In June of 2013, Portland experienced a massive die off of 25,000 bees because of pesticides used to keep linden trees free of aphids. The pesticides we have come to rely […]

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