Dad and Mama, Christmas 2014 So my last post was in September. This, after several years of blogging regularly. I have many good reasons...

It’s late summer, and that means one thing to me: figs . Figs are my favorite fresh fruit. Two weekends ago, a friend invited me o...

I'm sitting in our cabin here in Maine, listening to birdsong. That's not unusual, except that it's fully dark, almost 9 PM, an...

Source A while ago, I posted on Facebook this plaint: “All I want is a white, scoop-neck tee shirt that isn’t see-through. Is that too...

My daughters are in the ocean, jumping waves. The water is frigid, just like the ocean at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, at the height of summ...