by Jennifer DeBell | May 24, 2021 | Outdoors
I bought a beehive earlier this year and this weekend I installed the bees. Over the winter, reading about beekeeping was a great escape from our long, messy, uncertain year. February: I placed a standard order for a 3lb. package of Italian honeybees, queen included.... 
by Jennifer DeBell | May 4, 2021 | Fiction
A man struggling with cancer took a sudden turn for the worse. One day he sat sprawled in the sun reading a book that he balanced on the pinnacle of his hard old belly, and the next day his legs failed him. Time felt short. A hospital bed was brought in so that he... 
by Jennifer DeBell | Apr 26, 2021 | Food
Saturday afternoon promised rain. While the sun still shined, I mowed the grass, and participated in outdoor stuff which for me, includes pulling a chair into the sun and reading until my legs go numb. Around 3pm, as if on cue, a horizontal scrim of storm clouds... 
by Jennifer DeBell | Apr 20, 2021 | Outdoors
I’ve really wanted a dog for a long time, but instead, in February I placed an order for 10,000 honeybees. For most of my adult life I’ve held onto a fantasy of myself as the kind of woman who struggles to keep her fingernails clean because she takes on messy projects... 
by Jennifer DeBell | Apr 12, 2021 | Art
Every now and then I get a little obsessed with Lee Krasner’s work. There’s been a renewed (maybe never lost) interest in her work since the 2017 publication of “Ninth Street Women,” by Mary Gabriel, a study of mid-century American artists Lee Krasner, Elaine...
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