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A few years ago, I broke up with a woman I really loved and whom I’d hoped would be in my life forever. No, it wasn’t like THAT. (I only led you on to get your attention). But I did love her, and [...]

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Rapacious marauding gang of horned miscreants ate every single tulip shoot clean to the ground, even dressed as they were with deer repellent.  They even took a chunk out of an iris plant, which [...]

Sunday, March 10, 2013 I didn’t have plans to go in the garden so early in the season.  But on my way home from Sunday brunch the air was so balmy and beautiful I couldn’t make myself [...]

I can’t remember when a bearded iris flower first caught my eye.  As a young gardener, I had been a rose girl.  Roses are showy, fragrant, the obvious choice for a twentysomething [...]

You didn’t forget? Me neither. But what’s the use in remembering?                                 [...]

I’m Maria, the author of the young adult novel, The Secret Side of Empty, which will be published by Running Press in the spring of 2014. If the book’s not out yet, why have I invited [...]