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A blanket in the yard, a wandering cat, sun and breeze, and some messing around on the parlor guitar, trying out different combinations...

I took a walk in the fine English drizzle with a friend while her youngest daughter biked ahead and her oldest moved into college two...

After a friendly dinner of locally caught herring and on-sale red potatoes, we put together my bed frame. There’s a lot of peace in not...

I ran tonight, after dark and with a Fleet Foxes song on repeat and the flashlight on my phone zigzagging back and forth, because even...

There’s a beautiful thing I didn’t (and couldn’t) know when I was younger: relationships can cycle back, just like any big idea or lesson...

The prodigal kitten has been working through some stuff and away for a week. (I saw her, once, and the former neighbor saw her twice– she...

It rained this morning, steadily. And it rained all last night. This is a relief after the high fire danger, even though I’m sure we need...

I made a blueberry pie. It felt, at first, like a sad thing: berries and flour from the B&B, measuring cups from my former life. But then...

A dress I didn’t buy: swirling pastels and zebra print, backless, bead-encrusted straps, and a long train. I swear I would have, but the...

Today is my birthday. 39 years and heading into 40. An 83-year-old man came into work today to schedule appointments. He’s new to us, so...

The smoke was thick in the air over the water, making the not-so-distant hills fade and glow peachy-warm. Ennis counted down from three...

“Hey, Mama, can you meet us at the harbor so we can go in?” It’s a fun call to get at 8:00 p.m., both thinking of my kid’s fun summer...

My piano arrived today! I left money on the bookshelf and just like that, when I got home, the elves had swapped it out for a little...

I ran. Again. Because I wanted to. Because my body wanted to move and my feelings wanted to move and my shoes were still in the car from...

In spite of (or because of? Or completely independent of?) a lovely morning, I had a trailing feeling of needing a treat, deserving...

My child was in a play today, the culmination of two weeks of theatre camp, and he was so good. He was the monkey king, the trickster who...

Two books. Two voices. The hmm or intake of breath when the words catch you, spin you around to stop and look. The space between– how can...

Venison steak and rosemary potatoes and strawberry crumble after a run through the woods and a jump in the lake– how much more northern,...

It’s a relief that some people want to be dentists or doctors or mechanics or any of the vast number of things that I have never...

Falling asleep next to a gray cat, on a blue and white striped sofa, with a yellow blanket, and the soft glow of the lamp behind me. No...