March | 2015 | Beth Byrnes

Valenciaga Garden Couture

Posted on March 27, 2015 20 Comments

I borrowed this title from my Flickr Photostream so I could yak about our yard here. 😀 Seems the right time to do it, since our warm ‘winter’ has just melted into a hot spring. You will probably remember that, as a transplanted NYer, I have been struggling for over a decade to turn my high desert […]

Nontroversy

Posted on March 21, 2015 19 Comments

It must be Spring, because for the first time, this week, I realized that we are finally going to have a woman President of this country after nearly 250 years. How do I know? The best the opposition can do is nitpick about minutiae and petty issues like who selected the 30,000 private, personal emails for deletion. Whether […]

The Minority Retort

Posted on March 6, 2015 23 Comments

At a funeral a few years ago, I had a memorable conversation with one of Geoffrey’s brothers. He is the in-laws family scholar, a PhD, with degrees in philosophy (Catholic) and law (yup – Catholic). He is also extremely conservative, has a large family of children, who are home-schooled and then enrolled at a local Catholic college — all of them, […]