Thanksgiving goodness

Such a great day with good friends and good food. A mid day run in clear cold air. Antique Lennox china on the table and fresh flowers. Hours on the couch lounging, post dinner, with wine in hand. Always a grown up to chase Bean around the house, playing peekaboo behind the couch, twirling in [...]

5 Things I enjoyed today

1) My two very best friends in the whole wide world arrived on my doorstep today, bearing flowers and hugs. 2) The pure bright sunshine of today, and the way the clouds spread out perfectly at sunset in ribbons of red and pink against the blue bowl of the sky. 3) Dinner where everyone was [...]

He is utterly obsessed

With wearing our shoes. Remember these? They’re being put to great use these days!

Like crushing grapes

I feel myself doing the same thing I always do. Like a rodeo pony at the gate, my entire being bucks up against the process of sitting down to write about the things that matter most to me: about trying to make a life. Invariably this work always takes me to the brink of what [...]

10 random things

1) This reminded me how much fun it is to write an utterly random list. 2) Things I am into this month: pomegranates, this soap, making homemade granola, Scrubs on tivo, hearing my son giggle, and remembering to make time for the stack of books on my nightstand. 2) Sitting down and beginning anything—a manuscript, [...]