Ok, Is This Gardening Thing Therapy or Just Plain Hard Work?

May 30, 2015

I have been knee deep — or at least fingernail deep — in dirt lately. I’m not talking about the …

Washing Winter Away One Schmatta at A Time

May 21, 2015

It’s 9:00 a.m. — well, all right, it’s actually a quarter to ten to be exact — but I was …

March 21, 2015

I ran into two people from my past this week. Not my long, long, long ago past like Ohio or …

December 19, 2014

If you’re writing about Love and a Sense of Place, doesn’t Home have to come in there somewhere? I thought …

November 20, 2014

My friend, Olga, decided to sidestep winter altogether this year. She was living in London for the summer and decided …

November 13, 2014

When I was in my 40s and things like menopause and seniordom were vague possibilities and not my reality, I …

November 6, 2014

I have a lot of stuff to do all of the sudden. It is surprising me in a not-quite-but-close-to hyperventilating …

August 16, 2014

I don’t know whether to sing and dance or cry like a baby. I am that full of sad joy …