Bob's Little Acre

May 5, 202013 min read

Bob's Little Escapist Vice: Lark Rise to Candleford

Note to readers: This article is a fluffy feature and possibly a complete waste of your time. But it is, anyway, not about COVID-19. I'm...

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Mar 17, 20206 min read

Coronavirus We Have to Take Seriously, But Toilet Paper? Really?

This coronavirus shutdown is one of the more peculiar periods of history I've lived through, and I'm old enough to remember dancing the...

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Feb 19, 202016 min read

Bob's Little Beauty Tips: Self-Esteem for People Who Hate Themselves

Robindon has officially ended, which means we're overdue for one of my periodic columns on health, beauty and Timeless Wisdom. The Holy...

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Jul 22, 20193 min read

The Girl With the Silken Sepals

Happy Monday. This is a vintage Bob's Little Acre, a repeat of possibly the only noir detective fiction ever published in a garden...

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Jul 15, 20195 min read

Attention, Gardeners: Wholesale Slaughter is Easy and Fun!

Readers, time for a repeat! The Planet was obliged to rise this morning at 4 a.m. to accompany the Art Department on a routine medical...

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May 30, 201912 min read

Hey! I'm The Composter Child For Composting!

Last week, I was delighted to attend the first event organized as a joint effort between the Dade County Public Library and "the Dade...

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Mar 17, 20194 min read

St. Patrick's Day Special: A Treatise on Taters (A Retro Bob's Little Acre)

This “tater treatise” was the first Bob’s Little Acre that was ever published, if not the first ever written. (That was “The Great Lies...

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Feb 14, 20195 min read

Valentine's Day Vintage: National Loneliness Day

I didn't have time to write a Valentine's Day piece this year so I am rerunning this one from 2014 or '15. The idea is to remind those...

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