Pillow Talk

     We heard starting about Saturday that maybe we were in for some snow.  It seems late,  the sap was already running, we were in mud boots, and the car was caked in the stuff.  Mostly the snow was gone, certainly along the roadsides...

     Last night I was shopping in my dream. I'm not certain where I was shopping or what I was shopping for, it was more a feeling of being in a store and looking for something that I couldn't find. I imagine that this is a pretty common dream in...

     I'm still recovering from the week last month when my husband was unfortunately away and I had to do ALL the driving. Living here in the middle of nowhere, VT, we spend an inordinate amount of time in the car, all day, every day, all over and...

     The 10th anniversary of 9/11 has come & gone, marked this year with admirable restraint from the fear-mongering politicians who turned the attacks into their justifications for denying our civil liberties and going to war. I don't think I heard...

- Most of the bad things you worry about will never happen. Most of the bad things that do happen will never have crossed your worried mind. -      My friend Shari posted this status on Facebook 3 days after enduring surgery to remove a brain...

     I've been trying to get back to my blog and have been surprised by how difficult it has been.  Random thoughts haven't developed into full posts, and I keep getting pulled away to deal with this or that. Blogging, it turns out, is harder than...

     The past few days I have been doing something I never would have done if I had stayed in the city. I have been splitting logs. It's very important to wear the proper safety goggles.       I am Woman, hear me roar! I...

     I have two beautiful, brilliant, fantastic daughters who are, thankfully, remarkably confident and happy teenagers (well, pre-teen in the younger daughter's case, not that you'd know it). We moved to Vermont from New York for the girls'...

       What fabric do you always, suddenly, want to wear this time of year? Anything velvet, although irridescent tafettas and red plaids are close contenders. (I have a thing for those red plaid pants that some of the dads would wear to Christmas Eve church.) Every...

     It's hunting season here in Vermont, deer hunting with rifles right now, I believe. Deer, moose, bear, and turkeys - they each have their own times and rules, plus there are different dates for bow and arrow hunting. More people than usual are all...

     My older daughter is gorgeous, and endearingly, kind of a geek. Last summer, instead of going off to soccer camp or hanging out at the lake or pool, she chose summer school, to brush up on Algebra II, and went to Robotics camp. I'm amazed how...