Holding Fast. 18 Aug 2013 | 11:49 pm

I'm afraid I'd have nothing more to show you here but more beaches, for there have been many more since last I wrote. There has also been occasional rainy days, though there is a faint whisper of autu...

Summer - And Nothing More.... 19 Jul 2013 | 01:19 pm

Oh hello, there you are, or rather, here we are, in the midst of Summer! Do you see that capital S there at the beginning of the word Summer? Well, I have to tell you, this year it has to have a capit...

Seventeen Days In Virginia. 9 Jun 2013 | 05:33 pm

 An Appalachian visit to my sister, her daughter, and their red dog. Some days we drove, my mother and sister and I, skirting the Blue Ridges, layers of smokey blue that rode away into the horizon li...

Finding Our Feet. 25 Apr 2013 | 02:21 pm

We are settling in. Some of us not quite settled yet. A whole new world to get used to. Getting to know the light in this new place. I love it very much. Follow it from room to room. Loving the h...

A Brief Sojourn Before Uprooting Ourselves. 11 Apr 2013 | 02:53 pm

Not so long ago, we took the winding road south, down through the belly of this island of ours, through damp, mizzling hills that rolled under us and away to the glowering east. The rain ran down the ...

Wordless Wednesday. 11 Apr 2013 | 02:26 pm

Sorrow and Joy, And This Business Of Life. 24 Mar 2013 | 04:21 pm

You know those times when your feet don't touch the ground, when Life is too big and too fast for you to even draw breath, and everything whirls past in a flurry until whatever song it is dancing to f...

What's Cooking In The Milkmoon Kitchen. 6 Mar 2013 | 05:14 pm

After years of struggling with food intolerances, I finally feel like I have something of a handle on it, albeit no closer to finding a 'solution', if such thing exists. But over the years, my interes...

Learning From The Trees. 19 Feb 2013 | 04:22 pm

We had a lovely week off school, and even though for a lot of it the clouds sat low over the mountains, a mizzling rain pressing up against the windows, keeping us mostly indoors, we really didn't min...

These Friends Of Mine. 9 Feb 2013 | 05:08 pm

Well, this week has seen us struck down with an 'aul dose' as we say, four of us are at various stages of a stinker of a cold, and my ears pricked this morning as The Smallest headed out to school wit...