It's finally Inauguration Day, January 20th. It seemed like it would never get here. We worried that our now Ex-President would do something stupid like start a war before he left office. It was bad enough that he incited his…
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Where Are We?
Just to take stock, this is where we are today, Jan. 15, 2021. Covid-19 cases are up 27% across the country in the last 14 days and deaths up 39% according to the New York Times. We are being warned…
My Head is Jangling
My head is jangling from the events of last week. Who could believe so many monumental developments could be crammed into one week: Trump’s phone call trying to change election results in Georgia, the election itself, the determination by so…
Sunken Cities
How would I celebrate my birthday this month in the midst of the pandemic, I wondered. Getting on a plane was out of the question. Finally, I settled on doing short excursions not so far from home. So Wednesday eve,…
Gratitude List on New Year’s Eve 2020
I was prompted to think of what I was grateful for in the horrendous year of 2020, by the Calm app that I listen to on my phone every night with one ear bud stuck in my ear. In the…
Snow Cookies and Little People
One casualty of COVID has been the absence of children in our lives--with a few exceptions. During a lovely snowfall a few weeks ago, our neighbor's children set up a "kitchen" to make snow cookies. As the snow became a…
Thank You Letters
A friend, David Brown, wrote in his blog this week about a practice he has taken up this year of writing one thank you letter a week to someone who has had an impact on his life: "I turned sixty-five…
Simple Celebration
“How do you cook beef tenderloin for two?” my son called to ask. “We got a package of three short ribs and shared them,” my daughter reported. I cooked a small package of lamb chops for my husband and me. …
Wreath Stories
This wreath had its beginning in my sister-in-law's back woods in Minnesota in October. She encouraged me to find and wrap my own grape vines while she gathered hers. The circle of vines traveled with us in our car back…
2020: Bang!
I was thinking of proposing to my family that we each come up with an image for New Year’s Day of how we will dispose of 2020. I imagined blowing up a very big balloon, writing 2020 on it with…
