teacher.
A name springs to mind in nothing flat, right?
When I ask that question, I always get an answer. Seems like we all had one and …
Admit it, girls …
You’ve done it.
At least once.
Maybe once a day?
Don’t play coy with me.
I’m willing to bet a bushel of beets that you’ve succumbed to that toe-tappin’, arm-flappin’, booty-shakin’ boogie that can sweep even the most demure damsels into a frenzy.
Um …
I found a poem that Mom and I wrote a few years ago.
FINDING HOME
Home isn’t just a place or a location.
It’s a feeling, a memory, a sound, sometimes a smell.
It can be someone you know …
Amid the hubbub of our modern must-do-it-all lifestyles, there’s a longing that lingers for simpler schedules and down-home happiness. You know the feeling. I find it necessary to surround myself with little reminders—a rustic framed picture of a frontier woman here, an old cast-iron kitchen tool there. More than a collection of matching frills, they help me keep in touch with my inner farmgirl when the world around me is going a bit bonkers.
One of the most quintessential symbols of sweet and peaceful settings is the …
Colleen, one of our store employees in town, told me that a couple of weeks ago, the morning after we received close to two feet of snow, she experienced a stranger’s kindness while shoveling snow. A young man walked up, relieved her of her shovel, and spent the next 45 minutes clearing the sidewalk. But what really spoke to Colleen was this …
If you’re having one of those days when keeping your chin up feels a little too much like Olympic weightlifting, then you came to the right place.
A surprise package arrived this past week, coming all the way from the U.K. What does the group of women who made this stocking (Much Ado Books), firstbook.org, the island of Rota, and Captain James Arruda Henry have in common?
Sugar & spice & everything nice, etc. Remember the poem? It may sound fluffy by today’s standards, and one could argue that it has an air of gender-bias to it, but I believe the lyrical list of things “girls are made of” had its heart in the right place. Who cares if it …
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
