She’s 50 years old today. Well, not yet, not exactly. She pointed this out to me in her exacting sort of way when we stood together briefly in her driveway this morning. She was not fifty at 10:15 this morning. No. She won’t be fifty exactly until 9:45 tonight. Then she’ll be fifty. Right now, […]
Read moreThe thing about the ocean, maybe, is its limitlessness. At the water’s edge it extends away from us on three sides, uninterrupted by landmark or construction. Well, maybe a fishing trawler sits for awhile in the blue or, if we’re lucky, a sailboat picks its white way across the horizon. But these are both notable […]
Read moreMending Wall Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere they have not left one stone on a stone,But they would have the […]
Read moreCan you believe it? I haven’t even been to this site in weeks, let alone thought about a post (well, that’s not entirely true, but Almost) in a month. But now, O Reader, we have only (not including today, as the hardest part is already over, the part when I haul my eyelids open and […]
Read moreSo we’re watching the Pens game tonight. The Pittsburgh Penguins that is. And Bill is watching the game. Not me. Not so much. They’re in the playoffs, and they’re playing the New York Rangers, so we’re hearing a familiar name drift in and out of the play-by-play. A name that used to be a Pittsburgh […]
Read moreMy children had a half-day of school today. I did not, which was fine, and important, and good. But it occurred to me more than once– I will admit it here– that I would have liked to be a “normal mother” today: to drive over to the school after their half-day and pick them up […]
Read moreHow you know when you are really really good friends with someone: you exchange Christmas cards with his parents. (You know who you are!) (Yes, I still haven’t mailed out all my Christmas cards.) (Yes, I am still going to do it.) (I don’t care.) (I have stamps now!)
Read more(i can’t say entirely what it is but i could watch it again and forever i think maybe it’s the singer’s voice (so gentle) or the views of San Fransisco (we were there once for a blissful time in 2002) or the intense angles of the roads in that city so far away from here […]
Read moreTonight at the end of lightTonight, I feel lonelyI thought I heard my heart stop beatingI long for you to hold me I guess I feel like EdenThe twilight tried it’s bestTonight I feel good and evilAgainst my chest Would I love you less or betterIf I didn’t miss your faceRead your words like a […]
Read moreIt rained for most of Friday, and yesterday the weather played games with us. It was warm in the morning, and I took my walk in short sleeves with a rain jacket tied around my waist. It was still warm when we all left the house at eleven, but it was cold when we came […]
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