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Ah, December has arrived–a chaos of cloud and bright cold, wind and dark, dark, dark. After the flurry of Thanksgiving activities it has been delightful to fall back into an easy routine.
And easy it is! I’ve been spending my mornings journaling, meditating, and reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to the [...]
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One of the curious things about being self-employed with continuous house renovations is that there is always always always something that needs to be done. Maybe it’s work in the shop, or painting that needs to be finished, or a kitchen counter that needs to be installed. Maybe it’s something that can’t wait, [...]
Mid-afternoon and the angle of the Sun is already obtuse. We, however, are not. After some fine teamwork in Jay’s shop and a late egg salad lunch, all of us amble down the lane to the road: three dogs leashed, one girl on a bicycle, two rambunctious boys, one intern, and a [...]
Yesterday Renee and I were hanging out upstairs when we heard a kabonk. It’s rather amazing how quickly our brains can decipher the meaning of a particular sound, in this case the kabonk was immediately deciphered as the sound a bird’s body makes when it decides to fly headlong into a window. This interpretation was [...]
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I’m taking a no-holds-barred approach to homeschooling these days. I feel that it is imperative that we succeed, that we stretch ourselves to our limits, and then reach beyond even that. Of course, it should be noted that, as with life, I measure our success by the amount of joy we feel.
This measurement [...]
I’ve been journaling every morning this week. It’s been a long time. Curiously, the thrill of technology is what has enticed me back into the practice—we got a Smart Pen for my husband on his fortieth birthday, and he has kindly given me one of the special notebooks and let me use his [...]
Last night was cool enough to warrant two quilts, a delicious weight over my body in the morning. This afternoon was hot enough to warrant a dip in the river, though by the time we got there it was already late afternoon, and shadows stretched long over the bright water. The water was vigorously cold, [...]
