Annie’s Annuals
Our big activity this week was a drive over the Richmond Bridge to Annie’s Annuals & Perennials. Annie’s is a nursery that features all kinds of seedlings: California natives, low-water, groundcover, deer-resistant, bee plants, and succulents. Our find of the day was “Guatemalan Leaf Sage,” which is billed as “densely tidy & boasting flowers of […]
My essay in the paper
What a joy today to open my local newspaper, the Marin Independent Journal, and see my published essay, “Slowing down while sheltering in place.” I’m grateful to the Marin IJ for publishing work by writers who live in our community. The piece grew out of posts I’d written here and on Facebook. Looking at them […]
Week Four
Mateo is studying the universe in his high school science class, and I realize our confinement is like a neutron star: everything in our lives has collapsed down to a tiny core, compressed and dense. Tim is our designated public person. Masked and gloved, he leaves the house once a week to dash to the […]