Nov 21, 2010 | Blog
From Madeleine L’Engle’s The Irrational Season: I find it a good discipline to believe as many as seven impossible things every morning before breakfast. How dull the world would be if we limited ourselves to the possible. The only God who seems to me to...Nov 20, 2010 | Blog
I made oatmeal for the chickens again this morning, and they didn’t mind that it was a little brown on the bottom. Yes, I burned it, again. This happens when my husband is not here to remind me to watch the pot. But the hens like the soft, warm grain on these...Nov 18, 2010 | Blog
My friend Nancy, the one who says “women are better” whenever she reads the news, has been at Morning Muscles this week. Nancy likes to sleep in, but she is challenging herself to try new things and go new places in this small-town where she’s lived...Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
Read my first Woman’s Day column, here. (I hope you like it. I’m a little nervous.) Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
It was already dark a little after four yesterday when three teen age boys were spotted in the brush by the library. Two were up near the side of the building by a small aspen tree, and one was standing on one of the benches down by the sidewalk directing them.I...Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
I managed to wake up for Morning Muscles without my early rising husband, who is off deer hunting, but I didn’t sleep well. It was like catching an early morning ferry- every hour I’d wake with a start and check the clock radio. Maybe I should figure out...
