Ann Loves Plants

Tag: chronic illness

  • Plants Make Me Ill (Revisiting Chronic Illness in the Garden)

    With all of the recent changes it has been difficult for me to sit and think about being chronically ill. Mostly that’s because it’s what I thought about for so many years; the diagnosis robbed me of many things and it hurt deeply. Gardening kept me busy, but mostly I read about it. Actually being outside…

  • Things Fall Apart, Rereading the Garden

    Our willow arbor is beginning to fall apart. I was introduced to the book Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe many years ago when I was a freshman at Lewis & Clark College. Surprisingly, the book was not assigned, but instead, it was recommended to me by my boyfriend at the time,…