Birthday retrospective

In the fields, ice glitters like fish scales snared in the stubble of corn. The river flooded its banks last week. A January thaw, and now the outlying fields are a morass of ice and sloughed off hunks of snow, stained black with silt and mud. The ground heaves. The ice breaks, and pitches up [...]

Going for it.

An Invitation A box of postcards. A handful of moments. A Field Guide For Now. Part prose. Part mixed media collage. Part survival guide. Part adventure guide. Altogether: an exploration of the moments in life when everything happens and nothing does. Right now. Because these small, mundane, repetitive moments of laundry and dishes and leaving [...]

What if there is no emergency?

From The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron … “Most of us live with a continual sense of emergency. We have a fear that we are too late and not enough to wrestle a happy destiny from the hands of the gods. What if there is no emergency? What if there is no need to [...]

Hindsight and then some

Where have I been? To be honest, I’ve been busy taking myself too seriously, with an enormous cold sore on my lip, that’s where I’ve been. I’ve discovered that I’m quite prone to becoming rather preoccupied with the outcome of my life and days. It’s foolishly easy to sit in the dark in a rocking [...]

Because

I want to remember him exactly like this forever.

Catching up:

Doing: Whoa, it’s been one heck of a couple of weeks with both kiddos underfoot. Lots of sledding and cookie baking and general revelry. Not enough writing though. Or painting. Or time without the ruckus, giddy, non-stop noise making of two small boys. Speaking of: Sprout is standing and almost walking. He’s thisclose. He’s hilarious. [...]

Hibernating.

I’ll be back soon. I have so many stories to share…. Just trying to get back in the routine of things… (First day back to school for Bean was yesterday.) +++ What are you doing, reading, wishing for, and eating this week?

2010

I like the way the world looks now: tender, undercover, monochrome. I like the way this month starts off in sleep: the longest nights, the shortest days. I like the way we hurtle down hillsides on sleds; the way driving home from a New Year’s Day party with friends we saw five trees illuminated by [...]