The Morning After… it’s so quiet. A friend noted, in a comment last night, that this might be due to a certain missing heartbeat. Could be. That heart beat... Read More
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… on a princess’s give-ya day
Gotcha Day. The anticipation, the excitement, the giddiness… The joy. This is the beginning of a brand new being, for the puppy or rescued or re-homed dog… and the... Read More
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… on a morning in maine
It’s early… cool… humid. The gardens’ heady scents, joined by saltwater, are invisible joys cast from, it seems, all directions. I am not fooled. What is comfortable now will... Read More
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… on pride-ing and falling again (dammit)
So. This whole ‘pride goeth-ing before the fall’ thing is getting old. Allow me to amend my previous statement. This whole ‘pride goeth-ing before my fall’ thing is getting... Read More
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… on hope and plants along a day
One of the cool things that I get to experience each season, here in midcoast Maine, is the admiration – via my computer screen – of so many spring... Read More
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… on an eclipse (and more) nearly missed
That’s an eclipse right there. Oh, you can’t really tell – in that the sun is strutting its all powerful self – but the moon is covering about 97%... Read More
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… on grand(child) chic
Years ago – and I’m talking, like, years ago (perhaps even more than a decade ago now and certainly before 2020) – I was talking to my first born child,... Read More
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… on a princess at thirteen
We’ve been here before. Not with this beloved dog but, you know, here. Living with, and loving, an old dog. We’ve had four-point-five German shepHerds* in our lives. Apparently... Read More
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… on cooking with granny
This morning I was awake just as the sky was beginning to glow in the east. We’re having friends to dinner tonight so I decided it would be a... Read More
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… on a translation of danish to dingle
When I run the Danish word, ‘hygge’ (pronounced ‘hoo-gah’ or ‘hew-gah’), through my computer’s de facto translator, it decodes to ‘coziness’. In definitions, and multiple googled descriptions, that word... Read More
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… on phantom kid syndrome
This morning, my beautiful niece (and mother of my Practice Grandkids) sent me a funny meme that captured the craziness of the holidays. It said… well… let me grab... Read More
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… on ‘getting’ a place
As I write this morning, Maine still exists in darkness outside my screen porch. The post lantern is on, as is the one that washes the barn door with... Read More