progress!

Nov 19, 2016 | Uncategorized

created a new banner.  finally. ta da! yesterday baked kevin some low-sugar oatmeal cookies.  haven’t done it in one million years. brought in a couple of flowers from outside yesterday, now i wish i’d brought in more because it’s mighty cold and...

fraught

Nov 11, 2016 | Uncategorized

i guess at this point this is the best descriptor of my week. kevin’s dad’s visitation/catholic funeral mass/etc. election. i guess these are the two major things. fraught with crazy. and then, today, hearing about leonard cohen dying.  why didn’t i...

the end of our little trip to mackinac, where i want to

Nov 8, 2016 | travel

go back again and stay for a month.  I realize this probably won’t happen, but you never know… meanwhile, i’m happy to have spent a few lovely days there. here’s the view from our porch at the windermere hotel on our final morning, friday,...

kevin’s dad

Nov 6, 2016 | Uncategorized

passed away on thursday night.  kevin wrote a moving little piece about it here. sad times. sad times in the middle of frantic and crazy times – mom has been in the process of moving, from a house about 10 minutes away, to one that’s just two doors down,...

my thursday door!

Nov 3, 2016 | travel

i’m a little bit horrified that it suddenly dawned on me that it’s now november, and i’m still struggling to finish my postings of mackinac island, where we went in september.  things are chaotic around here, though, and i’m lucky to be sitting...