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It just keeps coming! This doesn’t do it justice, since the wind has blown a lot of the snow on the porch off into the woods, but check out this picture of the claw foot tub on the porch in the [...]

Here’s a link to a photo of the steps leading from the house up to the woodshed. Five inches of snow – actual powder like from back home – and counting on Fork Mountain! Click here.

It’s the kind of snow that, from the driver’s seat, looks like the warp speed screen saver on ancient Macintosh computers. After helping Hanshi and Sienna with kid’s karate class, after running a [...]

Jane from Seattle emailed me today with a fitting quote from Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume: “They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong. Compared, calendar [...]

Trying to fend off the start of a cold and preserve writing energy. Might be quiet on the blog for a few days.

Call it optimistic spring cleaning. I turned my second packet in and got immediately to work sweeping, dusting, and mopping all 2,100 square feet of the house on Fork Mountain. Next? I split wood [...]

Not ten minutes after a call from the lovely AT (Hi, lovely AT!), I’m headed down the driveway to karate class when…Pop! The dreaded flat tire. While I’ve had my fair share of flats since moving [...]

Really, naming it was half the battle. About a week and a half ago I had an acupuncture appointment. As usual, it helped tremendously, but—like a massage that feels powerful but can open up [...]

This is a karate-heavy post, cut and pasted from my karate journal, so you may or may night find this interesting. I will be on meditation retreat all weekend and will not post until I return. [...]

Here is a quote from the conclusion of Sara Boxer’s essay on blogs, as published in the current issue of The New York Review of Books. I find her observation interesting and ironic in light [...]