My first-born son and I have had pleasant conversations about "enough" for quite a few months. But yesterday I shot all the verbal ammo a farm girl raised in the fifties could muster against the idea of home canning. I have distinct sensory memories of hot summer days in a kitchen made hotter by processing tomatoes: arms … Continue reading Enough: canned tomatoes and darned sweaters
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A Simple Stitch
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of my learning to sew. I learned to sew because I am a farm girl. It was an essential part of the education, as was cooking, gardening, and gathering eggs. The first seven years of sewing were painful and tedious to me, because I wanted to be reading or … Continue reading A Simple Stitch