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 ten core values for people-ing
Last week, I had lunch with a very close and very old – like, not old but long-time – friend. Along the hours (yep!), and... Read More
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… on blooming and resting (and budding)
Some – not all – just some crabapple trees work so hard blooming up a storm one year, they need a longer-than-twelve-month break before... 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 an overwhelmingly good day
I am weepy today, right now actually. It is that weepy that comes when grace, or gratitude, or wonder, executes a perfect blindside tackle,... 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