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Too Beautiful for Words
I can't tell you how nice it is to have the kids in the kitchen-- and exclaiming about the snow, the mountains, the trees, the snow-- and then after lunch to go to a basketball game in the "big school" gym ( the fifth grade cousins were playing and Ivy and Lani...
The News From Pearl’s Beach
Every morning I listen to the news on the radio and scan the Internet papers to find out what's going in the world. Pearl gets the first news of her day from the sights, sounds, and smells of our morning walk. (Part of it, I suspect, is Pearl's aristocratic pedigree,...
Sunday’s Thought from Anne Lamott
"You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. [ Or living well, for that matter .] You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and giving is going to have to be its own...
Friday’s With Caroline
I get to spend all day every Friday with Caroline (2 in January) and now Pearl (5 months) and I thought you might like to hang out with us at the beach for a few minutes. So here's a postcard from yesterday morning. First we blew bubbles ( Pearl chased them) then when...
Signs of Spring
This morning as we pedaled by Doug walking to work, Chip said, "There's a nice little cinnamon near Brouillette's." Doug heard that through his iPod headphones and snapped to attention and smiled, "Sweet." They were not talking about the aroma of breakfast rolls from...
Finding the Good
So, I have spent the morning, well most of it, organizing my notes for the new book, which is called Finding the Good (for now anyway) and will be published by Algonquin as soon as I finish it. My wonderful editor has decided to help me by making a couple of...
Made for Goodness
The title of a library book that I learned was overdue while I was traveling, thanks to the library's automated notification system, is Made For Goodness. I could not for the life of me recall reading it or checking it out, and thought I had returned all my books,...