Grayson Highlands State Park

22 July 2009

a few things to remember

11 April 2009

Yesterday Renee was not feeling so great. She said she wanted to lay in bed, and I offered to bring her some books to read. She liked this idea, and when I asked her what books she might like, she said, "Oh, just pick out what you like, Momma, ’cause that’s what I [...]

Protected: this week’s work

2 May 2008

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

a sunday in october

21 October 2007

Dinner tonight was a potluck at the home of our farmer-friends to celebrate the end of the farming season. The Autumn colors here are now quite extraordinary, and the afternoon turns brisk quickly, so it was a fine evening to gather and lift our wine glasses to the harvest. My glass was filled [...]

Hand Wash Only

1 October 2007

Our washer is broken. Last Sunday when this happened my teenage daughters figured the logical thing to do if your washer is broken is go to the laundromat in town and wash your clothes there. But Andrew and I are also in the process of integrating new sustainability goals into our daily life, [...]

I’ll not complain about the wind again

18 April 2007

Oh, the wind has left me with luck, luck, luck-a-lee, oh, luck-a-lee!
First off, I’ll be heading to hear Gary Snyder read tomorrow at a sorta nearby college. And as if the Lady of Poetry, O Mysterious Muse, could not restrain herself with sparkly good events, I landed a spot at a writer’s workshop with [...]

mother of the un-mother

4 July 2006

Right at lunchtime Alex and Bert returned home. They had been to Asheville with their maternal grandmother since Thursday. Their maternal grandmother is not my mother. She is their birthmom’s mother. The mother of the un-mother. Her name is Lillian, and I have decided—after eight years—that I do not like [...]

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