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Garlic tells a story
If you're not growing garlic, you should think about it, and here's why.
Geri Larkin
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Banished from the garden: yellowjackets
My granddaughter is writing her first book. Here's how it starts: "I was born at 10:30 a.m. on June 18th, 2000. That's when the trouble began." If I were writing her book, I'd start with, "Last Friday afternoon my grandmother and I were chased by a swarm of yellowjackets." It started out with great
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In the garden: replenishing the tree canopy
As I remember it, the first meltdown happened somewhere around 1993. I had been practicing hard, getting up at 4 a.m. to meditate before driving my daughter to early morning swim practice and then heading into a manual labor job that sucked up the next ten to twelve hours. Maybe it was exhaustion an
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In the garden: refuge
OK, I admit it. When David Letterman said, "Sarah Palin is an avid hunter. A vice president who likes guns — what could go wrong there?" I laughed pretty hard. When my mother sent me videos about McCain, I watched them. I even cut Mike Smith's Las Vegas Sun [http://www.lasvegassun.com/] cartoon out
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In the garden: coffee!
A good friend of mine is living in the "in-between." He is in between jobs. In between housing. In between lifestyles. I was happy to offer him my little monk's transition room, a sparsely furnished bedroom, as an interim resting place while the various aspects of his life work themselves out.