Archive for June, 2010

 After the Storm

I called my oldest son, Sam, as I was going down the steps, just to be sure he knew about the tornado warning. He did. “We were in Walmart and they made us get in the middle of the store, ” his girlfriend told me.



 Upcycling is a New Word- the Concept is Not

Upcycling has become a hot new term. Never heard of it? You probably won’t find it in the dictionary. The term was apparently first phrased in 1994 by Reiner Pilz, but did not surface again until William McDonough and Michael Braungart used the term in their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We make […]



 Beauty and the Garden

Maybe it’s a feminine thing – the deep, inspired love for creating beauty.