The Blue Morning Glory journal

For eight years I operated a flower farm, on the side, in a place I didn’t want to be.

For a couple of those years, 2020 through 2022—working for the university from home during the pandemic, in the most isolated place I’ve ever lived—I kept a blog on my business website and wrote about 50 posts that were sometimes hardly connected with flower farming at all.

Many of these are collected here. Some stand as instructive guides to growing. I know they were helpful because readers said so, and I have reposted them for that group. Other posts only use flowers as a point of departure; that was the approach I used during five years in my 20s when I wrote a column for a floral business magazine. I wanted to tell my own stories, and what I wrote was met with appreciation, and I didn’t know anything about business anyway.

I was disciplined in my posting during 2020–2022. My life needed structure. The subject matter rolled around in my mind all the time, and the actual writing of each post usually was done in one sitting.