Primitives from the Iowa Prairie

My title is a favorite line from The Enchanted April.  Frederick is in a social situation in which he keeps asking himself who people are an...

Things have not come close to a peak here in Iowa, supposedly we are due at the end of April, on my birthday, in fact.  Not joyous news.  In...

I relapse into panic some days and keep myself calm some days.  Today was a good day.  The sun shone and I was able to get a lot of work don...

Well, last week was something wasn't it?  I spent the majority of it trying to breathe through blind panic and looking to make some sens...

A month ago, I was out scouting antique shops, when I spied an old house with an "antiques" sign out front.  The steps were cement...

It has been a typical January, trudging through the gloomy days, dealing with ice and snow, falling on ice and snow-- oh, does it hurt to si...

I am ready to take down Christmas now, I thought it would be cheery left up, but it turns out that it is kind of depressing.  Onward and upw...