Red, White & Grew™

Yours truly will co-present at the TEDx San Antonio conference in October. More details here and to follow…

One of the greatest, wisest moves that I made in high school was to enroll in a typing course. My parents, both of whom always encouraged my writing, felt strongly that it was a necessary skill. My father was especially persuasive on the point that typing would come in handy whatever field I chose. Imagine [...]

I’m researching a local a story and found this gem over on author Dan Fine’s site. He’s speaking to college students in the text, but we might all be wise to listen: So remember, Green is not some liberal fuzzy plot invented by your uncle in Berkeley who smokes the funny cigarettes. Green, my friends, [...]

Over on Grist, Ken Meter writes: I raise tomatoes in my garden, not so much to save on food miles, but because raising food is an aggravating and intensely rewarding way of learning about nature, and of connecting to people on my block. I get my fingernails dirty in part so I have more skills [...]

Having let the idea of victory gardens as folk art sink in further to my grey matter, I’ve come up with the realization that not all gardens would fit that definition. So, here are the two main criteria: • The garden must be given the “victory garden” name by the gardener. Of course, if someone [...]

Maybe it’s that post on victory garden art or my recent purchase of an papier mache esqueleto from Mexico–or maybe it’s just the heat, but I keep trying to make something of the idea of home veggie gardens as being a type of American folk art. Ponder this definition, if you will: Art produced in [...]