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I walked the gardens tonight and felt so fond and proud of all the plants– and amazed that there they were, coming up again without me...

Sweetness on top of sweetness. We sat on the lichen-covered rocks below the house that has been mine for nearly half a year. The lake was...

I walked to the bank today and it felt like the last day of school. The air had a warmth to it, a different density than we’ve felt all...

The Big Lake was nearly still today, so I hauled my kayak down to the water and went paddling. I went west, hugging the shore at whatever...

A party! A real party! We gathered outside, not because we had to, but because it’s spring and everything was warm and beautiful today....

It’s really and truly Spring here in the North! The temperature has vacillated: warm then cold to the point of snow (from which I looked...

I caught up with a friend today, on a long walk, with two kids and one happy dog in the long, yellow light of Spring. The dog stopped,...

I took Blue up to a forest road off the Gunflint Trail for the third day in a row. It’s been quite a while since I walked in the woods...

The world’s a bigger place than I believe it is, sometimes, even right here in our little village on the shore. I went to a BBQ– in and...

There’s that joke about the banjo player who absentmindedly leaves the car unlocked… and returns to find two banjos inside! Well, it...

It’s one thing to enjoy a high school Shakespeare production because you know and love all the kids in it. But this wasn’t that–this was...

“What does it taste like?” you asked. It’s as if whipped cream got better. Thicker and smoother, denser but somehow just as light. As if...

A walk after dark with a friend. I spent so much time looking up between the trees that my shoulders are tight and my neck hurts, but how...

“Nothing happens until one day, it does.” -Alexandra Franzen #Quote

Pajamas before 6:00 p.m. Half of a very 90’s movie (co-starring High Grant’s beautiful hair and endearingly English self-effacement)....

I looked at a house today, and two friends came with me; one had been a realtor, the other is a builder. I’ve been correcting myself...

A house. A home. A magic cottage in the woods. A fairy godmother. A wish. A scrappy, witchy princess. What’s money for but for a good...

There’s something about real kindness toward another person that fixes all of my own unsettledness. All the stopped up angst and...

Another old friend sent me a message from out of the blue: she was in town with her family, and did I want to meet up? It was like time...

I went paddling and the water actually doesn’t seem that cold– I’m going to jump in tomorrow morning, want to join me? I texted a handful...