At many workplaces it’s the time of year when the budget for the next year is cast. Targets are set. Charters are drawn for new initiatives. Conference rooms are full of debate over where to set the mark.
Posted by Tammy on August 25, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/08/25/roasting-veggies-for-the-freezer/
Three kids. Three schools. Three identical start times. Three wildly different school locations. It’s time to re-enroll in the fall academic schedule.
Posted by Tammy on August 20, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/08/20/packing-lunches/
She was a wistful woman who clung to the last few days before her children went back to school not because they were leaving but because it meant an end to the summer.
Celebrating Summer
Posted by Tammy on August 5, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/08/05/rhubarb-syrup/
America is called the great melting pot and should you look at my own family tree, you’d find the pot bubbling away with good French wine, a German goulash, Irish soda biscuits, English cheddar and a bit of Scottish Drambuie.
Posted by Tammy on July 24, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/07/24/traveling-in-germany/
Posted by Tammy on July 12, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/07/12/weekend-reading-plants/
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” – Ernest Hemingway
Art of Christina Balit
Frankly it’s not that my life falls apart when I’m awake, it’s that it falls apart when I haven’t slept. Then, last year Deepak Chopra, made it abundantly clear to me,
Posted by Tammy on June 29, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/06/29/tammys-top-ten-t3-report-ways-to-sleep-better/
Inside the case that holds my eyeglasses is a small cloth designed specifically for buffing the lenses clean. I am notorious for wearing specs full of thumbprints and other smudges and frankly, once I’ve been wearing them, I don’t even notice it.
Posted by Tammy on June 17, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/06/17/cleaning-with-silk/
It’s purely coincidence that Argylesock and I were having a dialogue about GMO labeling just last week. Then, last Monday, Connecticut, a blue state with the highest per capita income in the U.S., became the first to require food manufacturers to label products that contain GMOs. Well, they almost did. 
Posted by Tammy on June 9, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/06/09/ct-passes-food-labeling-requirement/
If you’ve been hanging out here for any period of time, then you can count on two fingers the number of times that I’ve brought you sweets. Never having developed a sweet tooth, I’ll trade my post-meal pastries for savory salt and vinegar chips any day. Today is different however as this treat works with my CSA and comes with a history and a lesson.
Posted by Tammy on June 2, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/06/02/red-velvet-brownies/
As a child, we always went to the cemetery on Memorial Day. I grew up in a community where my parents had also grown up so we had a history there. None of the neighbors or relatives who’d passed were lost in battle and few were in the military but we went, regardless. We cleaned up the grave sites and placed peonies grown in my grandmother’s yard.
Photo courtesy of Photographer, Poet and Teacher MagicalMysteryTeacher.wordpress.com
Posted by Tammy on May 27, 2013
https://agrigirl.com/2013/05/27/decorating-the-day/
A wife, a mom, an executive, a certified leadership coach and a breast cancer survivor. I love learning and I love to write and I'm often fascinated with the life lessons that come from my kitchen. Focusing on community-based Placemaking is the way that I work towards creating a healthier planet.
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