Take 2 Glazed Doughnuts (and an A1C Pill) and Call Me in the Morning Overeating is fun, and it’s easy to do! Stroke? Heart disease? Diabetes? Nonsense! Live it up, have a pill, take 2 glazed doughnuts, and call me in the morning! Inclusivity is all the rage these days. Its necessity is stressed everywhere. …
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The End of Summer: Redux Back in early September of 2021, I clogged your device screens with hundreds of photos from my garden in a feature called “Spring and Summer’s Path Through My Garden.” It was an image-laden review published per multiple requests from RGG readers and subscribers looking for shots of my garden. What …
Building a Memory The memories I keep of my remarkable mate are indelible and eternal. I’ll carry her in my heart and in my mind until the day I die. And she’ll never be forgotten by those whose lives she’d touched over the years. But for those rare few who have met her and inexplicably …
My Girl My girl remains forever in my heart and forever on my mind. Life does go on, but it will never be the same without my Dee Dee. “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone?” Joni Mitchell Regular RGG readers and subscribers will know by …
Buds The word “buds” is a deceptively loaded one. It’s short, but it can be useful in making sense of some of life’s realities and vicissitudes. I’ve written here many times before about the activity of gardening’s usefulness as a backdrop for many seemingly unrelated topics. Gardening, and the vast repository of subject matter that …
Haiku Hijinks and Utter Stupidity Not only is corrupting a venerable written art form reprehensible, it’s really stupid. Sounds exactly like something I would do. I am an idiot… One particularly cold and snowy day in early March last year, I was out in my garden, taking in the various elements of the frigid wasteland …
Why Start a Blog? Why start a blog? What are the benefits? How much work is involved? How do I do it? Where do I start? Lots of questions, I know. I’ll give you the answers to what I consider some of the most important ones right here. Why start a blog? Loaded question. A …
Saving the Next Guy from a Dystopian Nightmare As a civic-minded kind of guy, I’m constantly looking out for my fellow citizen. For me, saving the next guy from a dystopian nightmare is always the plan. There are certain words that I really hate. I hate the sound of them when they’re spoken, and I …
The Renaissance Garden Guy Visits Grammaticus Today, The Renaissance Garden Guy indeed visits the acclaimed international website and blog, Grammaticus. It’s my great honor to contribute one of my original essays, “A Flower’s Song,” to this remarkable site. Read on to find the link to the essay, and to all of the amazing content Grammaticus …
A Clear Writing Hint – Get to the Point Whether it’s a topic you’ve known a lot about for a long time, or one you’ve just finished researching, writing about it is a great way to share your expertise and knowledge with others. If you’re unsure about how to lay your thoughts out on paper …
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