Cedar Bay Park December 1, 2008 ~2:45 PM 44°F Heavy clouds coming in; light layer of ice on the canal; the man sitting on a picnic table just over my left shoulder is smoking a cigarette and wondering why we’re there. Actually, we were looking for our first letterbox and after three previous attempts and not one stamp to show for it, we didn’t care one bit if the guy...
the view from our front window the view from the kitchen hallway 8:32 am
three miles around the lakes cold noses and toeses then hot fire and hot cocoas waiting for the snow love to you on this sleepy friday afternoon
I want to need to remember: :: a pod of dolphins hunting for their breakfast in the waters across the cove :: the smell of laundry that has dried in the salty bay air :: laughing and carrying on with old friends over wine and clams casino :: a funky haircut that heralds a new season in my life :: rounded triangles of moonlight reflected off the backs of thousands...
Funniest conversation overheard: Abbie: “Wow, you can see the whole world from up here!” Jocelyn: “Can you see Italy???”
It was one of those parties where you talk to yourself in the bathroom mirror: you talk about how much fun you’re having and then you look yourself in the eye and say that maybe you should slow down on the wine. You speak French much of the night, and are complemented on your accent by your expat hosts. You catch your husband’s eye from across the table and with...
The smell of simmering soup stock and baking bread filled our home yesterday. It did much to take the edge off. Fighting siblings and long-standing worries seem much more manageable when warm bread is on the counter.
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I made a sweet little tote bag for a friend’s fifth birthday.
The babysitter is in the kitchen. I think she’s sitting at the table, reading the paper and smoking a cigarette, but the door is closed so I am not sure. I am in the next room, the living room. I am smiling. I lovingly arrange my mother’s pink polyester nightgown on my little rocking chair. It’s her favorite nightgown and so when I am lonely for her I take it...