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One year of blogs. And as promised, dear readers, I will stop for seven days beginning tomorrow. After seven days I will either post amended rules for the blog and/or retreat for seven more days, [...]

“My mom says you write about me,” Cedar Mae says to me in the car on the way to town. “Yup, I do.” There is not an ounce of shame in this confession. We’ talked about this before, Cedar just [...]

I have been chased by an edginess for the past four or five days that, when ignored and built up over a sustained amount of time, is almost enough to insinuate insanity. [Is it too much sugar? Is [...]

It would be impossible to choose a favorite shade of green during this time of year. It would almost be like asking a fish to take a step back and examine the water it was swimming in. There is [...]

I walk the dog down the cove to meet some friends for a picnic dinner facing the Black Mountains. Dog sitting for my parents on the east side of the river puts a little more distance between [...]

I am dogsitting for my parents who live, as the crow flies, just across the river. In a car, however, it takes ten minutes to drive a mile and half down the gravel to the paved highway, then a [...]

I forget sometimes, to look outside. And it is the sky, or the crookedness of the horizon against the sky, that always helps me return to the natural world, reeling as if backwards through time, [...]

“Oh,” Britt says with a knowing smile on her face, “this is your first experience in public with twins, isn’t it?” She says it as a warning but already I am ill prepared. We have taken a spur of [...]

If Monday was hauling wood day, sweat pouring down my neck and filtering through my shirt or collecting in dirty lines along the crease of each elbow, and Tuesday was ditch-digging day, whereupon [...]

Women’s Singing Night takes place up at the craft school this week and tonight we are six plus a large dog named Weston and a pea-sized dog named Pig. We sit outside around a picnic table with a [...]