The cats wake me up at 6:00 am, demanding to be fed. The soft, warm weather of Saturday has yielded to a seasonably crisp current. The only way I know this is because our apartment window has been lef… more →
Smallpeacewrote 7 months ago: The cats wake me up at 6:00 am, demanding to be fed. The soft, warm weather of Saturday has yielded … more →
wrote 8 months ago: After the days have long drawn in upon themselves, and the White Witch has cast her somnambulant spe … more →
wrote 10 months ago: In July, 86 degrees feels like a fine enough reason to hang out the laundry. There is a surprising p … more →
wrote 11 months ago: I read somewhere that peonies are often referred to as “the floozies of the garden” beca … more →
wrote 11 months ago: In our town and for miles all around, farmers long ago cleared away fallen trees and wrested out bou … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Call me a Chicken Little, but trees scare me. They grow while you are sleeping, and they can come cr … more →
wrote 11 months ago: Over the long weekend at Smallpeace, I had a little more kitchen time to devote to slightly more lab … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Yoga has been difficult post surgery, and it is clear that my practice—like my body—has to change. U … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Every now and then, I forget to look up from the sidewalk while I’m walking. I usually realize … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Rough morning I do not have to be happy. I do not have to skip on tippy toes for all eight blocks to … more →
wrote 1 year ago: There are turkeys living down our road. They live there all year round, yet they surprise and deligh … more →
wrote 1 year ago: So I am climbing up and up the park stairs to City campus one Monday evening when I pass a bed of go … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here’s the thing about breast cancer: it has infuriating self-possession. When a lump decides to mak … more →
wrote 1 year ago: During the long hungry days of winter, we don’t always make it up to Smallpeace as often as we … more →
wrote 1 year ago: He appeared out of nowhere, forcing the scroogey couple to stop their car at the intersection of Chr … more →
wrote 1 year ago: She’s been gone for too many years now, still how can I forget? The crackle of the frying pan, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Thanksgiving. What a wonderful holiday. It’s everything Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren’t. No tel … more →
wrote 1 year ago: My Inbox is stacked so very high with assignments that you can barely see me typing away at my compu … more →
wrote 1 year ago: My mother, brother, his wife and their two children will all be joining us in New York over the Than … more →