Cultivating Diversity in the Garden

Continuing down the memory lane of my childhood travels this month,  I’m reflecting on the diverse cultures that I experienced growing up and how they seem to be popping up in my garden.  Of all the places we lived, my favorite was Okinawa.  We moved there right before I turned five years old and left …

It Takes A Lot of Fails to Succeed

When I was a child, my rural-Arkansas-born parents gave me and my siblings the gift of experiencing the world!  My dad was in the Air Force and we traveled, moving every 2-3 years, sometimes to foreign countries.  It all seemed normal to me then, but looking back, I realize how incredible it was.  My parents …