Jul 28, 2014 | Blog
The good news about the rain, is that it feels like Fall, and when it feels later, the Fair doesn’t sneak up on me as much. The other day I thought I may have already missed it. (No! It’s this weekend.) But that’s my life at the moment. (Garden...Jul 27, 2014 | Blog
From a poem, “Snow Geese”, by Mary Oliver (her arrangement of words, a little like geese flying, see?) Oh to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone yet it is ours, and not by the century or...Jul 26, 2014 | Blog
I had this note waiting in my email when the internet came back on: “Helllloooo, Last night Nancy dreamt anxiously that the Fair started today. And we weren’t ready…So, I’m in the swing of it now—the asking for desserts.So if you can think of folks who have...Jul 26, 2014 | Blog
I meant to give you a wonderful update and some brilliant insights yesterday– but then we had an earthquake so I couldn’t. Really. 5.9 at 2:54 in the morning. It shook Pearl and I right off the couch, and as it kept shaking, I thought I better get up and...Jul 22, 2014 | Blog
I am up early, as I had hoped to get to Morning Muscles at 6:00 while Chip was still sleeping– but it was canceled as Marnie texted very early– 5:30– that she needed some sleep. (Happy Tuesday!) There have been bears up on the hill in her...Jul 21, 2014 | Blog
It is now four weeks since Chip’s surgery, and we are all settling in, in one way, and moving forward in others, and there is progress, all positive, but healing bones takes time and patience, and certain amount of creative thinking, like a lot of good things...