Soap nuts for laundry

Airing my (clean) laundry and reporting on an experiment with soap nuts, plus reminiscences from boarding school days: Soap from Trees - guest blogger post.

Tromboncino squash

Note: the magnificent squashes shown in this guest post were not grown by me. Maybe, someday!

Organizing the kitchen (Part 1)

Another guest post--the organization of frequently used kitchen utensils--on The Urban Homestead Journal.

On Pinterest and turf removal

Check out a couple more guest blog posts in which I reveal my weakness for Pinterest and introduce the front yard project--grass for food!

Guest blogging!

I'm excited to have the opportunity to be a guest blogger over at Little Homestead in the City!

The online world has changed DRAMATICALLY since I started blogging 11 years ago. All sorts of strategies for branding (my selection of JBB was not the most brilliant branding move...) and building traffic and finding a niche audience and "monetizing" your blog and having a consistent presence across all social media sites, etc.

But, at the basic level, blogging is still about writing, and I am looking forward to the chance to write in this medium more often.

Here is the first post: Dirty Dishes Management.

If life gives you a box of grapefruit...

get out your juicer (like the one your mother used when you were growing up in Zambia and which you happily happened to find in a favorite thrift shop some years ago)

and squeeze seven and half quarts of fresh grapefruit juice!

The leftovers:

Real

We make ourselves real by telling the truth. –Thomas Merton

As quoted by Elizabeth Esther.