by Site Owner | Oct 24, 2013 | Words from the Root Cellar
How to Make the Perfect Frittata with a Baby By Axie Barclay My Spousal-Type Creature is undoubtedly the better cook in our household. Since getting our hens into their coop, we’ve been inundated with eggs and are ever after new and awesome egg recipes. Tired...
by Site Owner | Sep 24, 2013 | Words from the Root Cellar
How to Write a Book Review with a Baby By Axie Barclay Get up early, well before the kiddo gets up, so you have plenty of time to make coffee, eat a banana, stretch. Feel your fingers tingle to hit that keyboard. Sit down at your desk with your coffee and open a Word...
by Site Owner | Sep 2, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Words from the Root Cellar
By Axie Barclay Abandon resilience, all ye who enter here. –Badly paraphrased from Dante’s Inferno Step 1. Drink a shot of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey, but before completing task get distracted by Facebook alert from SmartPhone. Aww kittens. Step 2....
by Site Owner | Aug 1, 2013 | Words from the Root Cellar
Hot, Real Hot, Damn Hot By Axie Barclay It’s July, and in Michigan we’re steamy as ever. With all the water around us and the rainfall we’ve had this year; it feels like breathing water, or living in a swamp, as we’ve been known to accuse our beloved state....
by Site Owner | Jul 19, 2013 | Words from the Root Cellar
Gone Broody* By: Axie Barclay (From: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broody. BROODY: 1. being in a state of readiness to brood eggs that is characterized by cessation of laying and by marked changes in behavior and physiology <a broody hen> 2. given or...
by michaeld | May 18, 2013 | Columns, Words from the Root Cellar
Can’t Fix Stupid By: Axie Barclay I was out chasing guineas and turkeys around the outbuildings, trying to shoo them in for the night, with an over-amped heeler dog on one side and a baby on my hip when I realized that you can’t fix stupid. It’s up to you whether I’m...
