• Randi

    Seed Saver Exchange

    Last fall I read Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Animal, Vegetable, Miracle as one of the books in my monthly Book Club.  The book is a true story about Kingsolver and her family, who only ate local food for one year.  If something was in season, they simply didn’t eat it. It was amazing to read about their daily life, all of which was food related.  While I try to eat local food as much as possible, I decided to go super-local and expand my garden this year. I ordered seeds from the Seed Savers Exchange.  Their mission:  “Since 1975, Seed Savers Exchange members have passed on approximately one million samples of…

  • Randi

    Ind-Appendix Day

    Once during college, I was super sick. I had a terrible stomach ache all of the time. I wasn’t hungry, I wasn’t full. I told my mom (a nurse) about my problem. Like most nurses treat their own families, she told me “you’re fine,” and of course I believed her. After a week, things weren’t getting any better. I had a busy day at school with a Fluid Mechanics exam and some kind of oral presentation for my writing class, “Technical Communications for Engineers and Scientists.” At the end of the day I walked back to my apartment and slept for a few hours. I asked Ryan to come and…

  • Randi

    New Website!

    Last weekend, I decided to upgrade to this fancy new blog-site format.  You like it?  I do! It has taken me until now, nearly a full 6 days (forever in internet time) to “launch” the site because of problems with my hosting company and the functionality of their servers.  You might have noticed this if you have visited recently and clicked on any of the tabs at the top of the page that link within this blog-site. I was working on Saturday afternoon, rerouting all of my URLs to direct to my new site home www.randivossphotography.com. I’m not an expert at writing code, by any stretch of the imagination, but…