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Sweet Rocket: November 2014
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Thursday, November 27, 2014. Occasionally I post on Facebook about interactions with my 3-year-old grandson, Joey. It's usually easy to make them concise (because they usually are. But here's a longer one from today. He explained that Jack was on the ice and fell. I asked if Jack fell through the ice, and he said yes.
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Sweet Rocket: 1982: Two Poems by My Daughter Gillian, Age 7
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Saturday, July 18, 2015. 1982: Two Poems by My Daughter Gillian, Age 7. Thears a green mommey. I said to myself. And there's a red mommey. And there's a purple mommey. And there's a tan mommey. And there is a my mommey. I gave her the first line, "I'll never tell you," and this is what she wrote:. I'll never tell you.
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Sweet Rocket: August 2014
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Saturday, August 09, 2014. I'm an enthusiastic grower of green beans. My three bush varieties are just about finished, and my pole beans are too small to pick yet, so when I saw a sale on magnificent green beans at the supermarket today (labeled "Locally Grown") I snatched them up. So I'm glad I didn't pay much for them...
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Sweet Rocket: Advice to the Grieving
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Sunday, June 07, 2015. Advice to the Grieving. Sheryl Sandberg's beautiful post about mourning her husband, posted on Facebook last week, reminded me of something I've been meaning to write. This won't be beautiful, but it might be useful. Accept the fact that you're a little crazy right now. I'm talking about physical dis...
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Sweet Rocket: January 2015
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Saturday, January 17, 2015. I’ve been working for over a week on cleaning out my pantry. It’s a small room off the kitchen that I managed to stuff with stuff. Sits on my sofa. Some of what I pulled out of the pantry will go back in, but much has already gone to the trash or to Salvation Army. And literary magazines with my...
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Sweet Rocket: September 2014
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Monday, September 22, 2014. Money, Money . . . Based on the numbers I heard on the news the other night, credit-card debt is pretty astronomical, and in many cases it's coupled with a complete lack of retirement savings. Scary. TVs and VCRs. And of course everyone was renting movies, and some were buying them too.
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Sweet Rocket: Trivia Night
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Thursday, July 16, 2015. The contest consists of 10 questions in each of 5 categories. When I saw the list of categories, I thought we were doomed:. One of our members owns a health food store . . . how much could we possibly know about candy? An embarrassingly large amount, as it turned out. I was hoping for some math pro...
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Sweet Rocket: Autobiography in 36 Lines
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Thursday, April 02, 2015. Autobiography in 36 Lines. I swear I remember posting this here- but none of my searches brought it up. So here it is (again? Autobiography in 36 Lines. I was born nine months after a Greenwich Village. Party- spaghetti sauced with red wine and dried. For our own entertainment, as our own musicians.
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Sweet Rocket: Wine Parings (yes, I meant parings)
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I planted Sweet Rocket (hesperis) 25 years ago, and it has planted itself every year since. It is classified as an invasive plant, and thus shunned by responsible gardeners. I love it. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Wine Parings (yes, I meant parings). Suddenly the pink chunks tasted exactly like pickled radishes, which is what they turned out to be. All the wines, by the way, were in the $60 to $85 range. The next course featured a 15-year-old red, paired with veal cheeks. Veal cheeks? Before it left, I plucke...