I got to be home for three days in a row. When I am traveling I think a lot about being home. I imagine that when I am there everything I do will feel homey…
April is polka dotted in Vermont. The mountains are just touched all over with wee little green buds, and from a distance it surely looks like a million pale green polka dots. Adding to the…
Have you ever seen a geriatric chicken ward? Soon I will apparently be running a nursing home for sweet old chickens who used to like to fly up in the kitchen window when we were…
For a long time now I have been coveting a cow. When you live in the country you do not stop wanting things. You may have moved here in part to keep your kids out…
There’s nothing quite like all this warm sunshine, and the millions of little green things poking up to give you a feeling of joy. You made it through. I look at our meadow where the…
I met him 23 years ago, the year I was also 23. Everyone talked about what a young mother I was. All my friends were on their first jobs or deep into grad school. No…
It was supposed to rain all weekend. Only then it didn’t. It wasn’t actually sunny, but the clouds were thin, and you could just imagine the sun if you squinted a little. It was in…
