Yesterday morning, I woke up to a world quenched from gentle overnight rains. This was a nice reprieve from the wind-whipped shards of water... Read More
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… on maine correspondences
Dear friend, It appears as though an annual visitor has returned to our cove on the Landing Road, bringing with him a great deal... Read More
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… on a mental palate cleanser
According to Wikipedia (a wicked trustable source that I was not allowed to use in grad school (and was not available to me before... Read More
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… on a very special kind of wHeird
As you may have heard (or remembered (or maybe I thought I told you, but forgot)), we are in the process of building a... Read More
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… on lessons from a bird
Yep. I finally saw her. Experts, far more knowledgeable than I am about all things ‘bird’, suspect she is a ‘her’. I have been... Read More
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… on an incorrigible toddler
So. You know how sometimes, when your kids are little, and you have one of those days when they look really good. Like, you have... Read More
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… on some good words, and a bird
About the bird. I do not know if you have seen the news lately. Like, the birding news. Okay, since the story has actually... Read More
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… on a labor of fear (and a little love)
You guys, my plant is in labor. No, seriously… look! I am a nervous mess of a plant care-taker right now. This is how... Read More
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… on purposeful contagioning
The day after Thanksgiving, every year, is Decorating Day in the Dingle house. On that day, the boxes come down from the barn and... Read More
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… on christmastime uncurated
I love old radiators. When we bought The Inn*, there was a lot of broken… floors… windows… ceilings… I don’t mean, ‘sort of not... Read More
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… on warm and welcomed distractions
I’d been working on a writing piece on and off all day yesterday, and it was kicking my butt big time. No idea why,... Read More
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… on connecting dots (backward)
I am a sucker for a good graduation speech. Love ’em. Some of my faves are Conan O’Brian’s to Dartmouth in 2011, Dr. Rick... Read More