Last week while I was poking around in the back yard garden, I found two caterpillars on my parsley plants. Miika spotted them too and begged me to keep them. At first I thought, no…let them be free…then I thought better of it. I picked the part of the parsley that they were eating and [...]

But we called him Rai. As far as I know, he did not smoke a day in his life, but cancer went after his lungs, his brain, and his bones and took him away from his family and friends on June 19, 2008. I don’t think I’ve ever known a more unpretentious and generous creative [...]

Yesterday I made a pilgrimage up to Misercordia to check out their facility. I’m on a fact finding mission to see how The Picky Peasant fits into the universe! I wanted to see what the residents were making and selling in the gift shop and how their restaurant looked. What a happy, busy place. It [...]

We escaped Chicagoland last weekend and took a long road trip, swooping down south and back in a big loop…taking in the mountains, the prairies, a concert, some treasure hunting, an aquarium and along the miles, I read a great book: Road Map to Holland by Jennifer Graf-Groneberg. It’s a deep look into the first [...]

Word Girl and Captin Huggy Face…Actually, Nathan is Mr. Sun and Miika is Miss 1000-words-a-minute. Nathan sees the sun in everything and makes us sing, “Mr. Sun” at least 88 times a day. Miika is our chatterbox. If her eyes are open, so is her mouth. But that’s OK…they fill our world with sugar, spice [...]

I keep telling myself that there’s a big picture that God has drawn out for us. He will take care of all our needs. If I look back, I have stones of remembrance of times when God miraculously supplied our needs…a mystery wad of cash, a check in the mail, a friend who offered to [...]

The Picky Peasant is up and running!!! For now, it’s just a simple site, but I have big plans. In a nutshell, I’m developing products that are made from recycled materials. My dream is to employ folks with disabilities to help fabricate these products. The process of recycling, reusing and recreating has so many possibilities [...]