Month: January 2013

Do you ever fantasize about a more perfect version of yourself? Is there, in your imagination, an idealized image of who you might become in the future? That can be a good thing if it motivates you to improve and […]

It’s really cold. Everybody’s talking about it. Kerry, soul-sister from the north country of Vermont, wrote 14 below up here. Can that be right? Bill, my brother who lives in the wilds of Ontario  [see Lion’s Head] sent an email : I receive […]

Yesterday we woke to a snow-day a breathing day Claire slept in,  me too,  cozy in bed, tea and books  and talking to Michael  before heading out with shovels. And Chewy, the big-eared dog, joyfully pronking  [gazelles pronk] with Ralphie, our cutest […]

I like that sweater, Dad said, But it’s old and pilly, I said. Old and silly is no longer a sin! he said. and laughed. Hugging me goodbye he looked me in the eye, I’m mad about you, he said… […]

I was feeling kinda low yesterday after talking to Dad.  “Bets, I seem to be having some confusion,” he said. “That’s okay, Dad.” “Josh, who works here told me that I’d not been feeling well last night but I don’t […]

At midnight  we stepped out the front door  and banged on pots and pans,  shouting HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY NEW YEAR  to the dark starry sky and the street and our neighbors tucked inside their homes. and then we stayed […]