Who Moved My Corn?

I need a piece of corn. Let's try this again: Last week, I planted a mess of seedlings I'd been nurturing for months outside in some raised garden beds I recently built.  They're dead now.  Apparently, you're supposed to ease them outside, harden them, prepare them - not just shove…

The M Word

Apparently it's going to take me more than three months to not squirm at the "m word."  And no, I don't mean moist. So.  I've been a...*cough*...a mo...*swallow*...a moth...*cough, cough*...a mothe...*ahem*...a MOTHER (there I said it!) for three months.  Three months.  THREE.  MONTHS.  (Hey, Jenny Slater.) Also?  Please don't expect…