Photo: Oh, the barn. Isn’t it lovely in the snow? Lord, I don’t know what I’m going to do with that space. It needs a foundation before we can really do anything to it. I fear that whatever work it really needs is beyond us and that it’s never going to be restored and made…
Category: Worthy Challenges
Me Thinks It’s Nap Time
Photo: A rainy morning that lead to a cloudy/drizzly early afternoon resulted in a completely empty playground on Friday. I couldn’t have been more happy! I let the boys stay out there way past nap time. It was the best! …I’m such an introvert… I was up and writing at 5:30 this morning. Outlining, actually–there are three…
Quiet Thoughts: The Mountains We Choose to Move (or the Mountains That Choose Us to Move Them)
Photo Credit: Yankee Magazine. Mount Monadnock is a beautiful mountain that I have a lot of personal history with. Very, very bad field trips. I’d love to, some day, hike it with maybe one or two other people, and make it to the summit peacefully and leisurely. Some day… Every Columbus Day weekend, there is…
A Little Devil in Us All
Photo credit: Wikipedia “Wow, you had your dad come down here to tell on me? That’s such a nigger thing to do.” It was the day after my father, a six-foot-four, two hundred and fifty pound Black man, came down to the neighborhood pool to have a friendly chat. Speaking very politely with the tanned,…
The Lessons We Learn
A father gives his daughter the world, one piece at a time. Through his love, protection and stewardship, a father can give his daughter the ultimate gift: power. The power to walk through the world independent, smart, and unencumbered. Intangible, the power that each little daughter walks out into the world with comes through the…
Beware of “Easy”: Embracing the Thrill of Challenge.
Photo credit: Wikipedia. This is a photo of Walden Pond. A new favorite place, and a spot on the map that i can’t wait to visit far more often. I have been wanting to write this post all weekend. I’m so freaking jazzed today–so focused, so optimistic. I’m sitting here in my blogging chair, hair…