I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in the garden. The combination of preparing and up-keeping and transforming and discovering offers both mental... 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 an unexpected christmas gift
So it was Christmas Eve, and I was all excited. But also behind. As in I had one more bed to make and a... 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 a party of five at sea
This past Tuesday, five women stepped aboard a boat and headed toward a dream. Okay, that’s too flourish-y, too much. This past Tuesday, five... Read More
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… on gardening in and out of a pandemic
May in Maine finds the gardens still at their beginnings. The forsythia still have not quite gone from sunny yellows to greens and the... Read More
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… on this mother’s day morning
It’s early when I step onto the porch. The air is silent and still, infused with the notion of leftover moonlight. The first bird... Read More
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… on breakfast sounds (poem)
Breakfast Sounds They are ambient… the people Chairs pulled out, scooched in Napkins unfolded onto laps Babes reaching for everything Shiny spoons offered As distractions,... Read More
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… on serendhoppity
A few weeks ago, I got a call from a very important Niece who happens to be the Mom of two very important Practice... Read More
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… on waking up on maine’s midcoast
Nearly every morning, when I wake up, the bed covers have been kicked, tossed, and otherwise molded into a loden cloud of duvet and... Read More