Deborah Adams's Blog, page 59
September 10, 2012
How Gardening Can Improve Your Writing
Huge thanks to Catie Keeler for sharing this clever post with me. She's absolutely right about everything!
A garden is a great tool for sustainability. It allows you to grow your own food so you can cut down on your monthly budget and reduce your dependence on conventionally grown foods and contribute less to the consumption of fossil fuels. With this small plot of land, you help your family and the environment.
A garden is also a great tool for writers. Working in the dirt and growing your...
A garden is a great tool for sustainability. It allows you to grow your own food so you can cut down on your monthly budget and reduce your dependence on conventionally grown foods and contribute less to the consumption of fossil fuels. With this small plot of land, you help your family and the environment.
A garden is also a great tool for writers. Working in the dirt and growing your...
September 4, 2012
Occupy the Seed
The first step toward food independence is growing our own food. The second step is saving seed rather than buying seed every year.
Step Two does not work, however, with hybridized plants. You've probably heard about GMO (genetically modified) crops, and you've probably seen those vast fields of corn behind signs that proudly proclaim it's grown from 'patented' seed. Did you know that if the GMO corn pollen blows your way and mingles with your heirloom corn that you might be sued for patent in...
Step Two does not work, however, with hybridized plants. You've probably heard about GMO (genetically modified) crops, and you've probably seen those vast fields of corn behind signs that proudly proclaim it's grown from 'patented' seed. Did you know that if the GMO corn pollen blows your way and mingles with your heirloom corn that you might be sued for patent in...
August 27, 2012
Writers in the garden
There was a time when the little lady you see to the left would have sent me screaming. Fortunately Margaret Maron taught me to admire the Argiope, or 'writing spider.' Yes, like Charlotte in Charlotte's Web. You can see how the string of Ms or Ws that she's created look like writing.
This particular Charlotte has taken up residence in my garden, attaching one end of her web to my garden storage box and the other end to a sweet potato vine. As a matter of fact, there are two more Charlottes...
August 20, 2012
Value of Reading
Kicking off the new website/blog with this wonderful guest post from Rebecca Curry!
I once had a college professor begin a world literature course by explaining that he did not expect us (the students) to love every piece of literature we read, but he hoped we would gain an appreciation of classic literature. This was pleasant news to most students in the course, as many of them were not English majors but Bachelor of Arts degree-seekers who simply needed to fulfill a literature course requir...
I once had a college professor begin a world literature course by explaining that he did not expect us (the students) to love every piece of literature we read, but he hoped we would gain an appreciation of classic literature. This was pleasant news to most students in the course, as many of them were not English majors but Bachelor of Arts degree-seekers who simply needed to fulfill a literature course requir...
August 15, 2012
Moving house
Just now -- and probably for a few more days to come-- I am in between websites and domain registrars. Previous posts on this site can be found at http://deborahadams.wordpress.com or via the links in that little box to the right.
Meanwhile my domain name (www.Deborah-Adams.com) is tied up somewhere between one registrar and another. If you try that URL and get to THIS website, please do let me know. Frankly I have no faith in the process.
Whether or not those of you who have subscribed to my b...
Meanwhile my domain name (www.Deborah-Adams.com) is tied up somewhere between one registrar and another. If you try that URL and get to THIS website, please do let me know. Frankly I have no faith in the process.
Whether or not those of you who have subscribed to my b...
