Shhhh-I’ve got a secret…garden.

Not everyone is mad keen on gardening, touring gardens, or planning gardens. It’s one of my very favorite things though. All the smells, the textures, the colors, the hope and inevitable despair-gardening is a much more fluffy effort than farming. Nobody’s livelihood or dinner is dependent on how beautifully your rose beds turn out this

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But, you CAN grow up to be a mermaid.

When I was little, girls in my class didn’t want to be astronauts or lawyers or famous singers, nope. They wanted to be mermaids. AND, it was indeed a viable entry on your homework assignment of potential career choices because we lived in the town over from Weeki Wachee. You really could aspire to be a professional mermaid. I

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But, do you deadhead Dahlias?

I am not a fan of zebra print, never have been, but you better bet I am not going to pass up a set of “zebra strip club mugs” at a thrift store.

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BRIDGE BOOK FLOWER FOOD

Surfella. Like Coachella, but with books and flowers instead of scantily clad, hungry people and music. Yes, it is time for our annual MAY DAY celebration!! Replete with flower crowns, twee herbs in teacups, vintage gardening supplies, culinary herbs and GARDEN PUNCH!  Happily, Saturday April 29th is ALSO Independent Bookstore Day!! We will be celebrating

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Witches Like Beer and Pilgrims Like Pie.

When you can’t find time to comb your own hair you realize, perhaps, one should slow down. But there are so many fun things to see and do and eat-places to go and books to read-so, for the record, Dreadlocks are back in style! (I know all 10 of my good friends who are hairdressers

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You will NOT believe who’s coming!!!!!

  “Ever since Christy English picked up a fake sword in stage combat class at the age of fourteen, she has lived vicariously through the sword-wielding women of her imagination. Sometimes an actor, always a storyteller, Christy works happily with Sourcebooks Casablanca to bring the knife-throwing women of her novels to life. A banker by

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The smell of thousands of apples is enough to make the flintiest Scrooge Thankful!

I am a bit worn out with all the non-holiday drama. While I am thrilled that people are making statements that their company will not force employees to work on Thanksgiving Day nor stuff Christmas down your throats till after Thanksgiving nor make their employees work on Black Friday OR have to explain why they

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