Saturday mosaic

The boys are checking out tractors. Three generations of men with long eyelashes scoping out farm machinery, their fingers nestled into warm jacket pockets, the air still stupefying cold. It’s nearly April, and the mercury can’t make it up above forty for more than an hour in late afternoon. Just long enough to get the […]

Sundown

Took my camera with me to the waterfront with the boys for a walk.
Got the skunk scent out of my cat with a natural enzyme spray: no tomato baths necessary!
Woke up today with a splitting headache. Now I have a fever. I can thank the kiddos at work for this one. I am […]

It’s alright

We’re good. Better. Hours outdoors snowshoeing, just the two of us, the sun filtering through the trees like gold onto the snow. Conversations over wine and salad about astronomy and politics and five year plans. A few extra minutes in bed together, lips brushing against warm skin, after sending Bean off to play in his […]

Inspired.

I’ll be back by the weekend.

30 today

And so the week is gone

I’ve been sick. A major yucky head cold + fever combo that has left me wimpy and whining watching re-runs on TV. I hate being sick. Especially around the holidays. To distract you from the abundant LACK of posting going on around here, pretty pictures:

My boys whispering in the early morning light, while I got […]

satisfied

Outside a wood pecker hammers into the trunk of a poplar and the sky is the color of snow. I finished my manuscript yesterday, and couldn’t have felt better about it. The stories work, I think, and they’ve begun to carry themselves, the characters leading me to new discoveries and scenes. It’s how I […]

A positive counterbalance

It’s the end of a week off and I feel at once relaxed and utterly frantic. I keep trying to remind myself not to let amorphous anxiety paint the backdrop for the entire day, and to instead pinpoint the underlying fear that causes angst to spread like a dark stain over calmer moments. This week […]

First snow of the season

Driving home, three good songs on the radio and then perfect light. I couldn’t stop smiling.

I pulled on my new snowboots, and dashed out the door with my camera thudding against my chest.

The light was so perfect it took my breath away.

A momentary break in the clouds, and pure gold.

Everything was […]

A mini photo documentary of my day:

Another morning to myself. Sitting in the sun at the table writing with the cat.

Re-reading shreds of story, and trying to figure out a better system for filing story ideas, works-in-progress, etc.

Back from a run. Downward dog.

Listening to good tunes on my iPod while soaking up the sun. Post run cool down.

Making […]