: About Me

I am the single mother of four children. I have been writing in one form or another, fiction and nonfiction, ever since I learned to put pen to paper. My children are nearly grown now so I finally have better time and energy available to pour myself into this passion which is the written word.

I hope you enjoy my essays and articles here.

Thank you!

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) True gardening stories: Oops!

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Trying to grow things when you start life with a black thumb can be quite the challenge. Rather than one mistake, I have made tons as I have tried my hands at gardening throughout the years. Whenever I have had a patch of bare earth that I could call mine, I have planted seeds, watered and waited. Notice fertilize is not on that list, at least not at first. This would be my first black thumb oops. In my incredible naivet, not to mention financial straits, this has resulted in many a stunted pumpkin or pea vine of the very few new shoots that would greet me at all. My bean stalks were not o...

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