June 14, 2019
Six years. Six years without a soul dog. Without a dog velcro’d to my side. I’d only looked seriously at one dog in all that time, and it wasn’t to be. I have seen hundreds – if not more – of beautiful faces on Pet Finder and rescues and breeder’s sites and shelters over the... Read more...
June 04, 2019
This spring has been kind of a blur, and I cannot remember if I told you about the wood ducks! That, up there, is a wood duck. Early one morning in April, I heard a wicked loud flapping sound outside my bedroom window. When I looked out, this freaky red-eyed creature was looking at me…... Read more...
May 27, 2019
Spring took it’s sweet and flowery time arriving on our fingerling peninsula here in Maine, and I don’t want to say that it made me cranky or anything but I have been absolutely rejoicing as the weather this Memorial Day weekend has been pretty dang spectacular. So much so that late yesterday afternoon I told... 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