The possibility of chance

Look what T gave me for my birthday! I can’t wait to take some pictures: but the stakes are high. With only 8 pictures per pack of film, I want to find just the right moments. Hard for this girl who likes to squander photos: taking so many of everything, always hungry for the beauty [...]

33

Hello friends! Today is my birthday. 33. It feels like it’s going to be a big year. This past year was awesome, heart-wrenching, and amazing. It got the ball rolling for so many good things. This year: so many more good things. Today: so many things to do, including attending a first grade preview evening [...]

Right This Instant

Reason #921 why we haven’t even considered buying a new couch yet.

At the window:: a morning poem

I am at the window eating oranges sent from a friend of my mother-in-law’s from Florida: the only place now in our country without some fringe of snow, and they are sweet fire. I suck the juice off my fingers, sticky and grateful as fat white snowflakes fall again toward the earth beyond the glass. [...]

A morning snapshot

So far this morning Sprout has.. …pushed a stool over to the counter while I was in the bathroom, and started swigging maple syrup from the gallon jug. …found a package of guitar picks and insisted on me opening them, giving him one, and then taking down a guitar for him to play. …pushed a [...]