Selections from my Goodreads bookshelf

Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
Gaudy Night
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering
Clouds of Witness
The Count of Monte Cristo
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Glass Castle
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Girl in Translation
The Tempest
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
A Christmas Carol
Landscaping with Fruit: Strawberry ground covers, blueberry hedges, grape arbors, and 39 other luscious fruits to make your yard an edible paradise.
The Complete Stories
When Breath Becomes Air
Breathing Lessons
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

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Favorite quotes

What a thing it is to walk on the grass of God’s imagination.
~ Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

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My garden

I’ve been converting parts of our yard to Minnesota native plants for more than a dozen years. In 2020, I added a vegetable garden. Take a look at my garden photo album in Flickr.