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It seemed a little silly to drive halfway up the Trail just to get a $7 microwave. (Smallish, white, just what I was looking for. Bonus...

Sticking with it. For six hours and approximately four thousand screws that each required eleven-and-a-half full turns of the painfully...

The heat down by the lake– as if this isn’t an enormous inland sea that emanates cold from its depths that the distant sun can’t do a...

Eating lunch at home– at home!– on a blanket in the sunny side yard, a red house at my back and trees everywhere else. The cat rolling to...

I don’t think I’ll ever forget that mothering a young child, at least the way I did it, came with a desperate longing for solitude, a...

The world was tilting hard for a while, and it’s good to feel more upright. (I wonder: did we need to lean so far we turned over...

“wondering around” in the woods. (A typo I like)

I’d rather blow the whole thing up than never light a match. -Michaela Anne, “One Heart” #Love #Quote

I don’t want to argue anymore about all the things I thought I could not live without! … -Mary Oliver, “White Night” #Quote

At the start of the day I would never have guessed that today’s delight would be learning how to play beer darts on someone’s lawn. I...

I bought the earrings today– the expensive ones. I’d still be wearing them now if I hadn’t taken them off for an Exhausted Inner Child...

I stood in line a long time at World’s Best Donuts. The woman in front of me asked where I was from, and we had easy conversation, all...

It doesn’t matter, but it does: folded clothes on shelves instead of heaps on the floor and the hamper. The rug unrolled, the drawers...

A script on a stage. Seeing others make art, on the fly, off the cuff, by instinct and pure hunch. But equally: the hot slab of rock at...

My mom’s house is transformed: bright Swedish red with white trim and a pale steel roof. The trees I remember being planted when I was...

I have four red coffee cups that I bought at Saver’s a few months ago (to go with my four blue plates, purchased the same day). Today,...

I saw beautiful, bronzy waxwings in a neighbor’s apple tree today. I liked that they didn’t lift off and leave when I stopped to watch....

I rolled out the rug tonight. Which is a miracle that doesn’t show its work in such a simple sentence: I put food and dishes in...