Margaret's Blog
It’s hot! How about a nice glass of iced herb tea? With the mint and lemon grass competing for space in one of my raised beds, I decided to help all…
Well, it's back in the weeds again as I begin research on a new book. Not literally into the weeds of course —but wait —maybe I will have to get into…
Last week I was invited to a lunch party. We ate strawberries fresh from the garden on a long table under a spreading maple tree. They were the sweetest I’d…
If you get confused by these Spanish words for little boy and little girl, as they are applied to the weather, you are not alone! El Niño or La Niña apply…
I sit here writing this as the sun has just begun to slant toward the west. It is quite late in the evening. It is the summer solstice, the longest…
A young lady in my family turned sixteen this week. She had a Sweet Sixteen party, which was, I understand, small and sweet – she treated her best friends at…
Talk of Artificial Intelligence and how it will “take over the world” has terrified us. And it should make us think. Do we really want this?
The coronation is behind us, not that many in the U.S. were waiting breathlessly when it was before us. But it is to be acknowledged, if not universally, that it…
A few years ago, a group of women gathered together in Phoenix to begin a new group supporting the arts in our state. We had formerly been a group in…
It looked like a piece of fluff on the floor. In the evening the light was dim, I didn’t have my glasses on and I picked it up. A piercing pain…
What’s an archive? It is a repository for the original documents of history. Not just the President’s papers and classified information, but letters, notes, and photographs that record the lives…
I’ve just returned from a visit to my family in Australia. Early settlers there may have made this simple campfire bread. “Damper” as it is called, was made by the…