http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog Books & Authors Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:55:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the DreamTime Publishing blog. We love books, all books, even books not published by DreamTime! We have two main purposes for our blog: One is to host an online book club, where readers can respond to our thoughts about books by their favorite authors. Two is to ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/online-book-club-and-more I can't help but talk about it, as it's on my mind. Two reasons (ha! as though I ever needed a reason to think about, talk about, or read books!) come currently to mind: I live in a resort area so am constantly seeing people who are on vacation; and ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/more-summer-reading-seaside-observations 7/1/08 "Lush" is a good word to describe my lasagna garden. Everything is growing so vigorously that I need to rethink the spacing I used for each plant. This was drawn from Mel Bartholomew's "Square Foot Gardening" method, which for years I've used as a guideline regardless of what type of ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/lasagna-garden-update Once a week or so I head over to the forums page of geocaching.com to see what people are talking about, join in a conversation or two, that sort of thing. Last week I responded to a geocacher who was expressing frustration that people weren't doing his new cache "correctly," ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/its-how-you-play-the-game June 24, 2008 This year I'm repeating last year's experiment: growing tomatoes in hay bales. Those of you who've read the book will recognize this project. For those who haven't, the idea is that as the hay bale decays, it will feed the plant. It's a self-contained compost parcel. All you have ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/hay-bale-basics This notice comes to me from my colleague Charles Patterson, author of a startling and well-worth-reading book called Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust: Want to Change the World? The San Francisco Writing for Change Conference Can Help! Gay Hendricks, coauthor of You've Got to Read this Book!, will ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/changing-the-world-one-book-at-a-time-conference-information For me, this week is what gardens are all about. Everywhere the eye falls, beauty and burgeoning life! And reward for one's effort. Seeds I planted have sprouted. Seedlings I transplanted are blooming in steady succession. Ditto wildflowers. All around, a zillion shades of green, lush as a rainforest. Skies constantly ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/payback It's officially summer. No, we haven't yet passed the solstice, but we've broken 90 degrees even here on "cool" Cape Cod, so that makes it summer in my book. And, speaking of books, summer brings ... summer reading! What are you reading this summer? Something light and filled with fluff? Or are ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/summer-reading-list As mentioned in previous entries, my lasagna garden is a big experiment. Each year I do several experiments, and probably will continue until I hit a combination that gives the vegetable and floral results I want with minimal expense and labor. Therefore, expect to see me experimenting for a long ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/this-years-experiments Well, yet another year has come and gone and I didn't go to GeoWoodstock VI, held last month in California. As I said last year, "next year!" Hmm. Here's what it's about: GeoWoodstock is an annual get-together for geocachers from all over the world. In five short years GeoWoodstock has become the ... http://dreamtimepublishing.com/blog/geowoodstock