The first few couple months of the year were unusually cold ones here in Garrett County. Swallow Falls froze over to a greater degree than I’ve ever seen. That’s us behind the falls in the feature photo above and me peeking out from a hole in the center in the photo below. Another very cool […]
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One of the people I most admire–a writing mentor about the age of my parents–recently lost her strong young-man son. My heart goes out to her. Life is so full of surprises. Not all of them are bad. But some of them are very hard indeed. “Hold your life with an open hand,” a beautiful
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A robin contemplates, still as a statue on the lawn. He regards the world long in profile and then turns and regards it a while facing me. Now he hops across the lawn, jerkily slowly, pausing often. This is me also in life right now. Contemplating. Hopping jerkily across deadlines but listening, thinking in between.
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Fullness of life. My child lies on her child-sized table watching a kids music video. Her eyes sparkle shine. A cardinal flashes past my window. Sun makes grass bright, a vibrant yellow green. I rarely let Annalise watch media on my phone…but on a whim this morning I found her animated children’s songs on You
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Yesterday, Ivan showed me this graphic, and we both giggled for a while. “That’s about right,” Ivan said. Beware marrying a writer, boys! Yesterday, Annalise and her cousin Abby tried out our new kiddie pool, it’s top ring mostly deflated due to Mama growing weary of inflating. I had the shop vac hose turned to
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