“Do you know what you want to plant?” my husband asked me. Do I know what I want to plant?! In the 24 hours since hearing about my new community garden plot I had done what good gardeners usually take an entire winter to ponder. I had a list an arm’s length long. In the
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Shifting Gears
The plate flips and lands on the floor with a crash. My expletive booms into the air, bounces off the walls and then, just as suddenly, the silence closes back in around me like a vacuum seal. Having jumped off the couch when I knocked the plate from its precarious perch, my heart still pounds.
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For the first time in my 52 years I don’t have something that drives me out of bed in the morning. School, work, children to feed, carpools to drive, meetings to get to: there was always some external reason that I had to get going. I am most definitely not a morning person but
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