Hosting An Asylum Seeker
I’ve given a name to the initial phase in hosting any stranger in your home, for surely most come in as strangers. It’s simply: “What is this stranger doing in my kitchen?” The name comes easily — I actually had … Read More
From Vitamin C to Vegetable Oil: My 2022 Learnings
As I prepare for a new year (i.e., change over the check register; is there anything else we must do?) I thought I’d take a few breaths and look back over the year to see what I’ve learned. This is … Read More
Sasha 2009 – 2022
It’s back. A mass too far in to try surgery again, the vet tells us. Besides, we decided last year, after her last surgery, there would be no more. September will be the month we put Sasha down. The most … Read More
Finding Our Way to Vermont
I’m often asked how we wound up in Vermont. It’s a good story, one I enjoy telling if given enough time. At the same time, it occurs to me that if one owns one’s own website (now there’s a tongue … Read More
Holding life and death in your hands
Those of you who follow me on Facebook know I spent yesterday with Sasha at a Veterinary Surgery practice in Hanover, New Hampshire. Last week, when I took her to a new local vet for her monthly intramuscular shot of … Read More
Clotheslines Redux
[This post was first published April 27, 2016 as Is There A Clothesline In Your Backyard. I like it and thought I’d send it around a second time. I hope you enjoy it.] Such an idyllic scene. Clean sheets blowing … Read More
More Musings: This Time On a Word
Woody and I have a young man living with us whose native language is not English. Suffice it to say (I love the alliteration of that phrase), we get frequent opportunities to talk about English. And so it was that … Read More
I (too) HAVE A DREAM
With the annual holiday honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hovering, I am called to create my own dream of a time in the future, a time that holds out hope, a time that promises to be different … Read More