~:: Amazing Things ::~
Nothing to do with personal angst. YAYAYAY!!!! Instead, I’m writing about yesterday. And I meant to start with something I was deeply pleased with, but have – after a night of interesting dreams –...
View Article~:: FHE at Ginger’s ::~
First of all, if you want to see one of the most beautiful sunsets that ever hung itself to dry over our lake I am sending you here (the amazing Ginger) and here (the brilliant Marilyn). Because I...
View Article~:: For Friends We Never Meet ::~
This is a very little story. It happened in 1994. Or it started there. My parents had organized the second of our two family reunions, this one in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, where they had a time...
View Article~:: The Making of a Season ::~
To begin, we have an actual photographic depiction of Rachel, buying The Gardener, right here on my front porch. This is the equivalent of breaking a bottle of bubbly on the bow of a ship. Except...
View Article~:: Winter Interlude ::~
It’s the middle of January. In this hemisphere, that means we are in the thick of winter, buried in snow, crusted with hoar frost. But not this year. Yesterday, I bundled up and went out to the barn...
View Article~::gifts, prizes, surprises and delights ::~
Got a cold. Can’t bweathe. (insert cough here) This puts me even more behind in everything, including reading you, Dawn. And you, Cori. On the couch watching a smarmy movie—not for long, though; it’s...
View Article~:: Back to the 4th ::~
I’m going to be moving backward in time here. Unevenly, too. Again, this blog is – at its heart – the journal I’m keeping of our lives. So I don’t want to miss things. I just wish I weren’t compelled...
View Article~:: More Fourth ::~
The 4th of July. Independence Day. Barbecues, parades (with horses), fireworks, craft fairs, patriotic villages, friends, games, marching bands, bagpipes, craziness. This year started with G getting...
View Article~:: New Buddies ::~
Two weeks ago – almost – Donna Lohr flew all the way across the country to spend a few days with two crazy women: Rachel and me. There are plenty of people who are suspicious of relationships that are...
View Article~:: 365 Dollars Short ::~
The last time I really felt like telling a story here – I mean, that feeling that drives you to put things into words – was last year. A year ago. And I didn’t do it. It was on a June weekend, the...
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