“Who Needs A Doctor When You Have the Farmers Almanac”

I love Phil’s piece here. Really made me feel like life was normal for a few minutes!

Notes From The Cactus Patch

I have been reading the revered “Farmers Almanac” for the past 6 months, and it’s surprising how accurate and sometimes, inaccurate it can be.

The Almanac and I go back a long way. My Grandparents introduced me to the book when I was six years old and spent summers on their Texas farm trying to convert myself from a city slicker to a country boy. They were firm believers in the power of its predictions, although they were let down more than a few times.

This fine morning, as I drink a cup of java and read the pages, it tells me the summer in this part of Texas is forecast to be cooler and wetter than average. I know it to be BS the moment I read it. No summer in Texas is cooler and wetter. Every day for us is misery and suffering topped off with biting and…

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Carnivore Dreams – Open Debate

Well, I'll still stick to my goal for the day (well no, I had this one written, but I now sliced my finger on a mandolin I wasn't even using and the bandage is too big to write much), but the last week has been so upsetting because it's clear there is an absolute authoritarian/fascist …

Carnivore Dreams – Today – I’m following my friends’ advice

Women friends. I've known for some time women are a lot smarter if sometimes not logical or analytical enough at times--they are wiser over-all. Well, I had planned yesterday to look up a blogger or website a friend of mine recommended (thanks Susan), but of course, yet again, my father took a turn and we …

Carnivore Dreams – Cancel Culture

Impasse. Here is the problem. My entire academic/literary community in Michigan has now cancelled and shunned me. I didn't try to argue any specific policy ever--just that we should have universities with free exchange of ideas. They knew from my memoir I was a libertarian type and while not necessarily a Trump fan, I was …

Carnivore Dreams – How my writing (and reading) and identity as a writer (and teacher) has been transformed

I knew from the time I was in junior high if not before that I would be a writer. I can remember sitting at my little antique desk in my bedroom and knowing I had been "called" to do that. It's been a very strange journey as writer. Early on, a high school teacher read …

Carnivore Dreams – Coronary Calcium Score

Quick note. I've been MIA because my husband had a retinal tear and then a blood clot in his heart after the procedure, and once we got him stented up and geared away, we went on a ten day vacation to the Upper Peninsula (instead of Maine because of all of the above). Then after …

Carnivore Dreams – No Life

Ok, I'm in one of those moods and it IS Monday, but there's no way I'm ever going to be able to read and write again that I can see. Ever. My dad is enough work, and I have a son with Down Syndrome and now my husband has just had a retinal tear which …

Carnivore Dreams – Trans-crazy

Right. I have no problem with anyone deciding what sex they want to be and no problem with gay people. None. I was always for gay marriage. (Though I am adamantly against any surgery or hormones before puberty when that is when peoples' sexuality and their maturity become at least somewhat established. We know the …

Carnivore Dream s- Parts 3 and 4

Will have to wait. My husband had a retinal detachment and emergency surgery and Shingles added extra inflammation to my incision areas from other surgeries and other issues, including fever, so weird, which apparently will linger up to three months. Luckily for us, though, they did emergency surgery immediately on him and I had no …

Carnivore Dreams – Angle of Repose, Beyond Order, Choosing Forgiveness and –Sychronicity – Part Two

Photo by Eternal Happiness on Pexels.com Okay, since I'm still recovering from some side effects from Shingles requiring a little bit of pain med, I'm going to make Part Two, the Health update. All of these things figure some into Synchronicity which I will address directly in another of the four- parter when my head …