Yanamama

How I came to Dingley Dell - a short story made long with lots of detours. Part 1 A friend asked recently how the Fearless Leader of Kreskes...

Written 2007, revised 2015 My Darling Husband takes great pride in being a logical, reasonable, and efficient person. He's also, well,...

It is the last Sunday in July. I know this only from a phone call with my mother last night. It is Mountain Fair weekend in my home town, an...

Every once in a while a word flies into my head, fluttering in desperate circles like a moth against a lighted pane. Most recently it was du...

The wind is sighing through the trees, through my heart. I am alone in the dining room as everyone sleeps. The sun glows through promising c...

We play games after breakfast here. Uno. Cribbage. Qwirkle. Waterworks. Dishes can wait. The work list is discussed (there is always work). ...

The to-do list is growing shorter. The hedges are trimmed, roof leaks sealed, mower repaired. I unwrapped beds and aired linens while my hus...

There's a constant breeze from the south. The house is surrounded by maples. From my bedroom window I look across the road to see the gr...

The cabinets are slowly emptying. The refrigerator contains little more than pickles and condiments. I am washing walls and baseboards in pr...

Time stretches and warps here. There's a sameness to the days so that i t seems we've been here forever in some sort of stasis . I l...

Today I'm filling time. The truck is packed, I have a small amount of paperwork to finish, and tomorrow morning we leave for Vermont. I ...

An Invitation to a "Good Time" (But Not in a Naughty Way) We are thrilled to announce that we're going Camping again fo...

We're home. We've even mostly unpacked. I've done loads and loads of laundry, and the house looks remarkably like it did before ...

And by that I mean ticks. We've got 'em, and they got both Teddy (the dog) and Will. Teddy was scarier -- she had some issues with h...

It's July. That should mean I'm so hot I'm thinking about snow to cool down, watching the kids run through sprinklers and have w...

is admitting you have a problem. This is a picture of the various jars of jelly I have found around this house in the past couple of da...

I'm homesick. Not a lot, but I'm aching for the familiarity and ease of our home in Colorado. Perhaps it's the weather - we...

We were expecting our next guests - a family of seven - yesterday, but they won't be coming until Monday. I am surprised by how relieved...

W e've been here three weeks today. I can hardly believe how much time has passed. We've been in constant motion - cleaning, repairi...

I am pleased to say that the trip across country went well. Quite well, actually. I dreaded the idea of it -- four people plus dog in th...