It’s been years since I’ve grown anything I thought of as a “crop.” Robert’s and my history does include several years of heavy-duty gardening, including a few years of bountiful harvests in the Farmington River valley of Connecticut. What I just pulled in from the back yard is nothing like the 50+ pounds of tomatoes from the year I was pregnant with Allison – but it’s a step nonetheless.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the advice Steve Buttry of Digital First Media gave to a group of journalists last month on how to begin thinking “digital first.” Following Monday’s embarrassing display of bad journalism, as every news source I consulted reported unsubstantiated and too-often wrong information about the shooting at the Navy Yard in Southeast D.C., we should all be thinking about it.

Sometimes things just don’t go my way. My follow-up with Dr. Rudzki yesterday was supposed to be an “all clear – just be careful.” Alas, it was not to be.