My personal website (not my blog, more of a digital resume for people interested in my work) has moved to zoe-buck.com !  When I was in coll...

In September (I know, it was FOREVER ago), I got fed up with the dark blue farmhouse style chairs that I grew up with, and that now grace ou...

So for the past year, the number or visitors to my blog have climbed steadily.  Using Google Analytics, I can tell what people are Googl...

Apparently Isabella Rossellini (yes, THAT Isabella Rosselini) has decided that the internet is the perfect place to bring back the lost a...

This is an amazing video.  They even carry off the skull and backbone!  Ants are amazing.  And let me emphasize that nobody "ordered...

Our garden gets too much sun for lettuce, but we have a LOT of cooking greens (mostly a variety of kale and chard).  Accordingly, we have ...

Play this as you read this post: Last week was the harvest moon (the closest full moon to the autumnal equinox, when farmers could sta...

Get ready for a small tirade on gender, science and the abuse of statistics. This month, a scientific study was released to the press a...

Our rental kitchen is tiny, about 6' by 10'.  But I know from obsessively reading Apartment Therapy  that small kitchens can be awes...

Green peppers.  Waiting for them to turn red because I like 'em that way. So far, four honeydew melons. Waiting for them to be...

I'm testing a free iPad blogging app called Monarch, and adding these photos of the garden. Wordpress has a free blogging app, but I ca...

Starting to look like a real garden! The chard and kale keep coming, no matter how much we harvest them! This basil from our garde...