A Garden I Used to Know

What else do you do with a front yard?

Alison Acheson
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Published in
5 min readApr 29, 2024

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My first raised bed in the front yard garden — photo by author

I’ve never had a green thumb, not really. I lived in a suburban house, and raised my sons in it. I sold it after my spouse died, and I needed to move and feel the life of the city. But I’ll always miss the garden.

One year my boys were too old for their tree house, and I began to take apart the structure I’d built years before, and…

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Alison Acheson
Middle-Pause

My latest book is a memoir, Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS. My newsletter is on Substack: THE UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS.