The lavender and larkspur in my garden were given to me by two friends. Once during a trying teaching assignment, a veteran teacher next doo...

Knitting Update: Currently, I have "Cassidy," a worsted weight cabled cardigan, waiting to be blocked and sewn together so I can k...

My husband and I made a cemetery trip to our parents' and grandparents' graves on Memorial Day. The sky was overcast and the wind wa...

Two weeks ago, my husband built a raised bed frame to add to my garden space. He combined this and this so I can rotate the tomato crop ar...

Several weeks ago, a pair of blue jays built a nest in the birch tree close to the north side of our house. The twig nest with its messy liv...

More than choices of pattern, fabric, and color, quilts tell stories which mark time and place in which they were made. In July 1999, I bega...

In Nebraska, weather is a topic which guarantees conversations between total strangers. The changing clouds carry rain, drizzle, sleet, hail...