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Look Up …

December 29, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Dogs / Farm Life / Living Authentically / perspective / The Human Condition

Outside it’s drizzling that ‘just above freezing’ damp, bone-chilling cold that I find particularly horrible. My dreams of a white Christmas went unanswered this year and maybe that’s a perfect ending to a particularly difficult year for both our country and for the world. I’ve tried reminding myself how badly we need rain here in Eastern Washington. Nice try, but the truth is, its yucky outside and no amount of pasted-on optimism is going to […]

I Choose the Blues …

August 19, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Farm Life / The Human Condition

I like blueberries. No, I actually love blueberries. If I were forced to have only one fruit for the duration of my life I would ‘choose the blues.’  Everywhere I have lived I have planted blueberry bushes, and sought out u-pick farms to satisfy my craving while waiting for my own plants to mature. That takes years. If you’re fortunate enough to move into a home with an existing mature patch, which I did many […]

Like a Boomerang …

June 30, 2025
by Nancy Emeral
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Farm Life / Follow Your Heart / Living Authentically

5:35 am and already I feel like I might be running late. The forecast is an unseasonably hot day, could reach 100 degrees. In Spokane where we live, this is expected in July or August, certainly not in June. I have 2 choices as I look to the day ahead; grumble, complain and feel sorry for myself, or just get to work doing whatever I can to keep all living things in my care as hydrated […]