Monthly Archives Apr 2025

Daffodils, peepers, seed starting & snow - It’s spring on the South Shore.

Daffodils, peepers, seed starting & snow - It’s spring on the South Shore.

I've got a new video up on YouTube about early spring. Also in this post I reflect on how Spring feels full of nature’s own demands, quite apart from the cultural busyness of school-year endings. With homeschooling and graduate school behind me, I’m leaning more into the natural rhythms of spring, pacing myself through its much-ness without the weight of scholastic rituals.

3 Step Homemade Lip Balm Recipe + How-To Video

3 Step Homemade Lip Balm Recipe + How-To Video

First time making lip balm in my new home with my tried and true recipe.

From a springtime walk in the woods after supper
Tale as old as time: Empty nesters buy off-road vehicle for midlife adventuring

Tale as old as time: Empty nesters buy off-road vehicle for midlife adventuring

I would hope we keep trying new things throughout our lifetimes and our marriage. But our move to Nova Scotia and becoming empty nesters has created the perfect conditions to start new things. Enter ATVing.