November 06, 2018
Today it is raining – sometimes pouring – onto our little peninsula in Maine. It is also voting day! I know, I know… it’s wicked contentious (not with everyone, everywhere)… and the most important election in the history of all mankind (we really need to study more history)… but, once again, I woke up so excited... Read more...
October 29, 2018
Blow me a bubble one without trouble Or people, or small talk noise free To float in, to ponder and let my mind wander Just heart stuff and soul stuff and me. thanks for readin’ (and also, way to go Sox!) You can comment below, or join fellow ponderers on Just Ponderin’s Facebook page… or both!... Read more...
October 28, 2018
I love this picture. A storyteller, an audience. Chirps and bleeps and ringtones absent. Distracting screens and crowds replaced by the quizzical faces of seals appearing and disappearing with a quiet ‘bloop’ here, and a little ‘plop’ there. It reminds me that we’re all fellow passengers on a small boat in a big sea. Not... Read more...
Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder
Okay. Let me get this out of the way right now. I have permission to tell this story, directly from the perp. Also, yes, the... Read More
One funny moment after Jack proposed to Mac (and Mac dissolved, pretty much, into a melted snowman puddle (but recovered quickly enough for us... Read More
This spring morning I awoke to the conversations of a thousand winged beings. And as I yawned and stretched I realized… This was nature’s... Read More
Every Easter Sunday morning since First Born Mac was puny (pew-knee), there has been a rather loud and massive hunt for candy. The Easter... Read More