Journey Home. Isn’t that where we are always heading?
This blog is an attempt to make sense of a life through writing and photographs. During the coronavirus pandemic I retired from outside paid work and began posting here more. In 2025, this is a place to get my daily writing pump primed. I write a short post most days to get to work on the autobiography I hope to publish in 2026.
I began writing in public with an August 1974 letter to the editor of the Times-Democrat newspaper in my home town. The majority of my public writing has been such letters, opinion pieces, and since 2007, thousands of posts on several blogs. When I was younger, I had vague notions of becoming a novelist, yet found it difficult to break from the exigencies of a life to produce fiction. What I write now is grounded in some form of reality, not really non-fiction, but not fiction either.
On Aug. 21. 2024 I received my Library of Congress Control Number and ISBN for An Iowa Life: A Memoir, the first part of my autobiography.
Read my most popular post Autobiography in 1,000 Words to learn more about me.
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Journey Home 
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We are new garlic farmers in Colorado. I would love to learn more about your garlic harvesting, sorting and curing set up. It’s very interesting. As we need to decide what method to use and prepare it now during the slow season.Please contact me through Messenger, Facebook or give me a way to contact you. Thank you.
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Kathy, Thanks for reading my blog. I have worked at a local CSA for the last five years and all of the garlic produced is either distributed to members or used for seed. The farm plants in the fall, although garlic can be planted in the spring as well. The best resource for you is to explore Practical Farmers of Iowa. http://www.practicalfarmers.org/ If you join, there are discussion groups where you can learn which members use which techniques regarding garlic. They have a lot more expertise than I do, and they may be aware of a similar group closer to where you live. Whatever methods you use, start recruiting volunteers now as it takes a lot of people to plant, harvest and weed. Best wishes for your new endeavor. Regards, Paul
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Just a note, but I keyed off a casual comment you made in one of your posts as well as more generally musing on life questions addressed in some of your posts with a poem that I used for my post today.
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