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Blog postAwakening to the Anger Abroad When I awakened on Thursday morning after the attack on our national capitol, I felt as if the world had tipped on its axis. I was disoriented and frightened. So I did what I always do when I’m feeling down. I headed for my garden.
My last post about gardening was in August when I stripped the leaves from several lettuce plants that had bolted during a heatwave, sending up thick stalks ending in flowers over a foot high. The leaves on the stalks, I was p2 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postWe All Make Mistakes It was a mistake. After the elections, I returned to watching network news. For most of the last four years, I have avoided watching or listening to any news program that was likely to mention the antics of the Trump administration or the latest impasse facing our elected representatives. That didn’t […]
The post My Antidote for Sadness – Generation Alpha appeared first on Marlene A. Bumgarner.
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Blog postRemembering Past Traditions Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with large family gatherings. We eat communally prepared feasts, share family stories, and spend hours indoors playing games, working puzzles, and watching televised sporting events. Even more than Christmas, this holiday is about family, and most years millions of people travel thousands of miles to Grandma’s, or Aunt […]
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Blog postWriting as Healing In this time of Shelter in Place, many of us have turned to gardening, baking, or writing to help us stay focused and grounded. I have done all of those things, but mostly I write. Writing is how I make meaning out of seemingly meaningless events, and journaling about Covid 19 and […]
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Blog postCall to Action After many months of sheltering in place, I was preparing for a visit from my youngest grandchild. For her 4th birthday, her parents had reserved a space at a nearby campground where we could safely social distance. I’d been collecting hobby horse patterns on my Pinterest board, and now it was time […]
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Blog postDoldrums in the Morning I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. That’s unusual for me – I usually bounce up, starving, with the beginnings of a coffee headache, open the blinds and the sliding door beside my bed so Kismet can go out, and head for the kitchen.
Today I languished, thinking of all that we are facing. You know the stuff: COVID 19, the mask controversy, the fear; people hurting one another in unending violent protests; well-intentioned Zoom groups grappl4 months ago Read more -
Blog postLove at First Touch – Massaging Away Pain I never expected a simple trip to buy vegetables to change my life, but it did. I met Maria Fernandez at the Santa Cruz Farmer’s Market where she was offering five-minute massages. My body hurt that day, as it always did. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I stood in line, then when it was my turn, climbed on to her table. The instant Maria’s hands touched my body, I relaxed. When my allotted five minutes were up, I didn’t want her to stop so I asked he5 months ago Read more
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Blog postMorning Each morn I soak my bones.
Steaming water soothes the pain.
Watch the sun break through the clouds.
Hear the birds proclaim the dawn.
I concentrate on my breath.
A tiny cloud
Drifts out to sea.
I concentrate on my breath
and wonder
Is this meditation?
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Blog postHelp! My Lettuce is Bolting. The heatwave that hit Santa Cruz recently fried my chard leaves and caused the leaf lettuce to bolt. Looking at the gangly plants, overnight grown to four feet in height, I wondered why we call this sudden growth “bolting.” I sat in the shade and reached for my smartphone.
“Run away suddenly, out of control” The word “bolt,” it turns out, can mean many things. My online dictionary listed six definitions of bolt used as a noun: a roll of fabric; a ba6 months ago Read more -
Blog postTransition from Writer to Author – it’s crazy! I’ve been absent from these pages for nearly month. A month that at times felt like a year, and at other times like a single moment. So I thought it only fair that I bring my loyal readers, and my new subscribers, up to date on what I’ve been doing before I go back to Blogging As Usual.
The Lead-up to Publication The lead-up to the publication of my latest book was long; once I “finished” the manuscript I shipped it off to an editor, and6 months ago Read more
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Here is a practical look at the roles of adults in children’s lives outside of the classroom examined through the experiences of real people in a wide variety of settings and with a diversity of needs and insights. Working with School-Age Children helps to define the role of professional child and youth workers in the lives of children and families. The book builds on a foundation of child development theory and provides a historical overview of the subject and an overview of school-age care in other parts of the world to help ground the work done by the people represented in the book.
The book describes the issues children face in today’s world and the attributes and skills critical for people who work with school-age children. Included are strategies for adult involvement, healthy and productive activities, and guidelines for developing and sustaining afterschool programs.
When Marlene Bumgarner and her husband moved to a rural plot of land in 1973, she thought of herself as simply a young mother seeking an affordable and safe place in which to raise her child.
By the time she left the land nearly a decade later, she had written two books and a weekly newspaper column, served as contributing editor to a national magazine, a college instructor, and a sought-after public speaker. Her natural food store, The Morgan Hill Trading Post, was the first one in her community.
Follow Marlene and her friends as they live on the land, coping with the challenges of rural life as Silicon Valley evolves into the high-tech center it is today, and the world in which they live transforms itself culturally, economically, and politically.
Easy-to-make, delicious, and satisfying, whole grains are low in fat and cholesterol but terrifically high in fiber--and full of those "magic" antioxidants. They are also the foundations of a healthy diet. In The New Book of Whole Grains, Marlene Anne Bumgarner covers more than a dozen grains in an easy-to-use grain-by-grain format. She provides nutritional information, tips on buying and storing for maximum freshness, and a brief historical profile for each. Bumgarner offers more than 200 recipes to turn these nutritional powerhouses into delicious appetizers, entrees, soups, muffins, cookies, cakes, breads, and side dishes, many of which are vegetarian. Any home cook eager to provide his or her family with healthy, delicious food, packed with flavor and nutrients, will delight in this clear and engaging guide.
Recipes Include: Amaranth Granola Cereal, Sour Cream Triticale Waffles, Quinone Tabouleh Salad, Sesame Rice, Brown Rice Risotto, Spinach Dumplings, Black-eyed Chicken, Barley and Shrimp Casserole, Oatmeal Macaroons, Peach Rye Crisp, Hasty Pudding, Sorghum Gingerbread, Pumpkin Nut Bread, and many more!