The geese are back. The year we first moved here we named them Elsie and Harry. They are back on the pond and this year they have three little goslings. They are a family of…
I just heard Garrison Keillor say on the radio that the beauty of May is that the whole country is on the same page. He’s right. In a few weeks our friends in the South…
Among the list of things I have never managed to do is grow a proper garden. You know, one with potatoes, and tomatoes, and beans. We are good cooks, and I always envy those people…
When you move a thousand miles away from the place you have lived the first half of your life, forty years of it anyway, you must make new friends and import the old. We have…
This was my first Mother’s Day without my mom. I didn’t worry or wonder much what it would be like. We have lived apart for a long time, only these last few years it was…
They are all asking. It’s May and Mother’s Day is a little bit early this year. What do you want for Mother’s Day? Is it too early to plant the flowers? Is it still too…
It’s May. The lilacs are barely in bud. The birds are all building their nests. The noisy female robins, are squawking and rejecting various bits that their husbands bring back for the nest. String is…
