Canada re-opened and we headed east to check on our church. What with the anxiety about whether or not the border would open, how best to plot our trip, and the process to enter in a bit of a flux, we didn't really pack with our normal thoughtfulness. I almost always bring enough projects to last a year and do [...]
It has been so very long since I have written anything at all. I think it is because there was at once nothing and too much to say. Still, here we are at the end of the summer with the remains of Hurricane Ida whirling around our place and I am still dreaming of the summer flowers Erik planted. Since [...]
It has been a crazy long time since I have posted to this site. I could blame the pandemic, but really I decided I needed to spend every ounce of extra energy I had to help change the political climate here. I wanted to make sure that, if it didn't change, it wouldn't be because of a half-hearted effort on [...]
I hope everyone is staying healthy during this weird time. I find myself thinking about what it must have been like in 1918 with the Spanish flu. Then as now, there were folks who realized social distancing was necessary. My grandparents, all four of them, apparently did so since they all survived, but they were a tough lot. My father's [...]
It has been a year since I last wrote anything on this site. The changes and upheavals I, my family, and the world have experienced are certainly more than I could have predicted last year this time. The Covid-19 pandemic is reshaping how we do everything again - jostling me out of my routine and requiring me to re-evaluate my [...]
