The day began with a request for pancakes and after breakfast we spent the rest of our morning outside. Greg and I moved our old grill to the road so that hopefully someone interested in a free barbecue will take it (edit: someone did!) and then O and I played in the sandbox, on the trampoline, and on the swings…
Below is a sample of what you can expect from my Substack newsletter, which I wrote about here. The following post is from the September 7, 2023 issue titled ‘On The Verge’. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe! A ‘better-in-hindsight’ t.v. show and the summer that won’t end… Last year the crisp autumnal weather arrived promptly on September first…
I have been devotedly reading a few choice blogs for going on twenty years. Twenty years! For half of my lifetime I have consistently checked in on the lives of a handful of strangers and followed along as they got married, had children, lost parents, took vacations, fought illness and more. I enjoy a well-written and thoughtful glimpse into another…
Despite all of the madness of 2021, we had a very big and great year. In January of last year our daughter was born and in December we moved across the country and into our first home. We have been in our house a little over two weeks and with each passing day it feels more like home. The only…
I don’t know what to write. Do you ever have something you long to do so badly, but every chance you have to do it you don’t? I think about writing daily. I talk about writing daily. I sometimes make it as far as logging in to my computer (occasionally even onto the WordPress site) and then I reach for…
Two weeks ago I shared about our loss. Through the heartache and challenges of the past few weeks one silver lining, I believed, was that it brought me the confidence to write which I had previously lacked. I thought that my having shared something so personal on the internet signaled a transformation and I would now be writing in the…