You can tell a lot about a person by looking in their refrigerator. Are they focused on fruits and veggies? Processed food? Beer and cheese and maybe some moldy takeout? It also helps to give you as caregiver a clue to what’s going on with your loved one’s health. If they aren’t cooking for themselves,Continue reading “Full or Empty Fridge Indicates What?”
Author Archives: Nancy Taylor Robson
Fiscal Fitness for Caregivers
I have to confess I loved the alliteration of the title, but this post is actually about fiscal fitness for the cared-for person — a parent, grandparent, spouse, even sibling. It’s not easy, and in many cases not a welcome responsibility, but it’s one that can keep a loved from financial disaster if accomplished withContinue reading “Fiscal Fitness for Caregivers”
To Resolution –Or Not
I’ve never been one to make New Year’s resolutions since I knew I could never keep the most stringent ones, and the lax ones are things I already do ( like flossing, and scrubbing the bath tile). BUT the list on Caregiver.com offers a pretty compelling and doable list (which happens to corresponds to ourContinue reading “To Resolution –Or Not”
And Still She Persisted
Abigail Adams would have been proud to see a whole month devoted to Women’s History — and thought that it is no more than millions of women deserve. Abigail was one of the original feminists, though she would have been loathe to attach that term to herself. She viewed herself as individual, strong, intelligent — andContinue reading “And Still She Persisted”
Book Award and Review!
It’s not food, OR garden, not really, although both figure in the book, but I’m thrilled to post two things here: The fact that my novel, A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story has won a Mom’s Choice Award! moms-choice-award AND The Kirkus Review of a-love-like-no-other-review
Planting Garlic in Faith
Two days ago, I planted half of the hardneck garlic I intend to put in this year. I had chosen a bed that hadn’t held any last season and yanked out the desiccated tomato plants (we picked our last green ones, which are turning red on the porch as I write, about five days ago)Continue reading “Planting Garlic in Faith”
A Buzzing Retirement Plan
My latest essay in The Christian Science Monitor’s Home Forum: My husband is outside our office, splitting wood. In between the rhythmic thwack! of the splitting maul, he’s singing Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Except, he’s not singing words. He’s buzzing the melody. Buzz buzz buzz buzz (whack) buzz buzz buzz buzz (whack) buzz buzz buzz buzz buuuuzzzz bzContinue reading “A Buzzing Retirement Plan”
At Least It’s Been a Lettuce Year
This was a hard spring for many of us – we had frost over here on the upper Eastern Shore of Maryland in May with plenty of rain and cool, overcast days – all of which put most of us into something of a funk and at least two or three weeks behind in planting. In fact,Continue reading “At Least It’s Been a Lettuce Year”
WHY Would You Graft Tomatoes?!
When I first heard of grafted tomato plants, I thought: Grafting? Of annuals? Really? Grafting woody perennials, yes. The time, attention and effort required to produce a successful graft rewards us with years of fruit (trees) and/or beauty (think: roses). But all that work for the tender stems of tomato plants that only lastContinue reading “WHY Would You Graft Tomatoes?!”
Flowering Quince: A Spiky Spring Beauty
Until we moved to an old house on two patchwork-planted acres, I had never seen a flowering quince. When I first inspected them in June, I was under-whelmed. Each was a thicket of twiggy, green-leafed branches armed with lethal spikes like something out of Br’er Rabbit’s briar patch. Expendable — or so I thought.Continue reading “Flowering Quince: A Spiky Spring Beauty”
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