The cold has arrived. It froze last night. The air this morning has a diamond sharp quality, flawless. The sun is no longer close enough...

The animals have handled this last move with stoicism. They have been through three big moves in just over two years and I’m sure are as...

I had been waiting for the seventeen year cicada hatch, the latest in a series of natural phenomenon that have elevated the state of...

The temperature finally rose and it started to rain, melting the snow that has been sitting in plow banks along the roads since December....

She stands 16.2 hands tall at her withers.  There are four inches to a hand so that’s a little over five feet. She is dark bay in color,...

I took the back roads home from a school run the other day.  They had been recently plowed, but still I drove slowly.  The nor’easter had...

My husband and I planned a trip to Idaho this month.  Or I should say I planned a trip.  But on the night before we were to leave I...

I stood there on the grass outside the auditorium where Convocation had just finished. Parents were still making their way out the doors...

This year I got a certificate from youngest daughter, printed from the internet at her friend’s house that reads: You have been awarded...

I spend a lot of time in my car.  There are two things that aren’t that pleasant about driving in Connecticut, the crappy radio stations...

Spring hasn’t exactly sprung here in Connecticut, but don’t tell the geese that. The winter has been so mild that all the birds are...

At least it felt like that hiking this morning.  I’ve been tramping through these hills for thirty odd years and I never tire of the arid...

You know that email that went out a few years ago that listed the different night time routines between men and women?  The man said he...

I was worried our weather was jumping from summer to winter without the beautiful autumn for which the east coast is famous.  I started...

Well Charlie

I’m waiting for the Water Doctor to arrive.  Our rental house in Connecticut has a well.  Our neighborhood is considered “back country”,...

Sugar finally got to come to Sun Valley.  It took moving the entire household across the country to do it, but she now knows what she’s...

My husband has lingered on the periphery of these stories because he is not the main character in the kids and animals lives.  I am....

The kitchen is the hub of our house because that’s where the food is, pure and simple.  I’m usually there because I’m either making food,...

Our black lab Hank is beautiful, but he has lots of issues.  He had double elbow surgery when he was young, to remove bone chips that had...