Spirituality - community - sustainability. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Monday, October 4, 2010. Pulling on baggy work pants and rain boots this evening to take out the trash, I got hit by an extra-strong wave of farm nostalgia. My spaghetti sauce could use some fresh basil, my body could use a few hours of field work, and my spirit misses the company of my four sisterfriends.

Saturday, February 16, 2013. It may have been two years since I posted. But I still check back on my blog for recipes. Wednesday, September 14, 2011. I Wrote Down a Dream I Had Pt I. Sunday, May 22, 2011. Topics estate and garage sales. Friday, May 20, 2011. Now, in my version .

All has become different while all remains the same. Which I can, because I found my long lost camera! After 8 months of being in hiding, she has returned to me. And what better first subject while back in action than the beautiful carrots the emerged from the earth this afternoon. I still like this one.

Senegal seems so far away. I seemed to have left my confidence there as well. But here, every where I look, I question myself. Will they like me when I show up to their cocktail party looking like a dirty hippie wearing bright African colored prints and 500 CFA plastic sandals? Remember when you were young and anything was possible? My eyes.

The Twelve Months of Twenty-five. Saturday, September 3, 2011. Not with a bang but a whimper. It is not without a touch of emotion that I at last arrive at the final day of this blog. There is little to be said by way of a conclusion that has not already been said several times over. I was not very consistent. But I learned a thing or two about myself as a writer along the way. A new blog will be starting soon.