Jul 29
It all started when he decided to share the secrets of the twenty-nine villages that exist beneath his underground garage. Twenty-nine individual little existences, each dedicated to some form of sweetness: a candy cane village, cotton candy village, ice cream village, birthday cake village, banana split village were some of the early revelations. When we …
May 10
When we bought our house more than three years ago, we found a burn pile waiting for us. Since then we’ve added leaves, pine needles, decaying bark, trimmed branches, rotten 2×6’s, dead window boxes and other random junk. A couple of years ago, we spent one day burning, but mostly the pile has just grown …
Apr 09
We were still in bed, working hard to deny it was morning, when we first heard the pitter patter of little feet. Or was it the flutter of tiny wings? Before long it stopped and we didn’t think about it again, until it returned the next morning. Could something be skittering on the outside of …
May 08
Where did your imagination take you as a child? What did you see, dream, aspire to, pretend? I can’t imagine I ever dreamed of being a famous rock star, but I know I spent hours singing along to records holding an imaginary microphone in front of my face, so maybe. Others donned a cape and …
Feb 17
The story reported that she tried to teach crafts to her captors, but I don’t believe it for a minute. Not for a person like Kayla, as least as I’m coming to know her through national news reports. Nope, for someone dedicated to standing in solidarity with the Syrian people and committed to not letting …
Oct 01
NURSING IN PUBLIC sitting in a church pew waiting in an airport for grandma tucked into a rest area mid family adventure more inclined to delight than annoyance I smile at glimpses of baby nestled inside discretion dining on mother’s gift having no appetite for human subtleties and finesse two deer stand in the middle …
Aug 23
LEARNING TO SHARE we try to be good neighbors with an open gate welcome for all manner of furry and feathered friends we delight in hummingbird antics wobbly knees of spotted deer raucous cacophony of silver throated songbirds parades of turkeys strutting and scavenging occasional passage of elusive elk massive moose, cagey coyote all the …
Jul 29
WHO KNEW? beside the boat launch and public beach a woman looking up caught my eye and swiveled my head scaling the length of spruce and pine I finally spotted the great blue heron parked like an angel on top of a hundred foot Christmas tree as statuesque as the figurine that belongs at water’s …
Jul 22
GETTING AROUND TO IT I love our house plants. A few have come from professional growers and were generously given to us on special occasions, but far more have been shoots off other plants. Some have fallen victim to cat antics that tumbled a pot and broke a branch; a little quiet rooting time in …
Jul 03
THIS SUMMER DAY frantic little hummingbirds do you ever grow weary of frenetic fluttering about the relentless rush of racing to nowhere you buzz me as I bring more food dive bomb each other refusing to drink from the same fountain rejecting the concept of room for four sneak a peek at Mary’s poem and …
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