Collecting the Moments

Give me the loud giggles. The one that tells me a too-long story in the middle of school that is sort-of-almost related to what I was teachi...

His parties were always the biggest and most elaborate. I didn’t realize that this was over. I am in a sort of mourning right now of all the...

  “If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, ...

Snow makes the most mundane landscapes beautiful, and it makes the beautiful landscapes magical. We just got the most snow we have gotten fo...

In winter, nature study takes a turn of the colder variety. Especially this year, when masks are mandatory and groups are illegal.    We enj...

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.  And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard t...

A plague party in the middle of a pandemic... too soon?  Maybe... but 14 year old boys have a dark sense of humor and so I decided to bank o...

I got a new lens for Christmas..... I am not sure I need say more.  (Such fun!)