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Here's what I'm dreaming of, in spite of our heat wave....

The heatwave has definitely broken. The rain is starting, thunder rumbling. It's as dark out as an early dusk, at 10am. Count this near ...

New colors! New pretty! Right? Yes? Let's just say yes so I don't spend the rest of my life wallowing in blog templates, shall we? T...

I have to start with the side notes. Sometimes, you just have to do that. First, date of my last blog was my brother Michael's birthda...

OK, sometimes resurrections are slow, gradual. You know that. Right? It's just been an odd kind of existence. The happy news is that the...

It's baaaa-aaack! Yesterday, I suddenly realized with my newfound freedom (freeeeeeee-dom!), especially after sending many emails, tex...

Just had to, you know...still see if I could....

Willa likes string cheese. Yes. Didn't know that, did you? She's currently scarfing my snack....

It's true that I didn't immediately register them. And, really, it's been so long, I should've. They're exciting little ...

Last week, we became one bright spark dimmer. One always-friendly face less. An embodiment of sweetness & kindness, now gone. The boatho...

Driving somewhere one of these days this past week, I drove by a UPS truck parked at the side of the road. In the dust on the back of the tr...

That's how I look at a holiday Monday, a bonus weekend pearl, tossed my way. Altho another part of me whispers that weekdays are days, ...

So, this morning, Willa, whom I generally adore, but who has been having issues lately, leading me to wonder if a cat can have eating disor...

Not so much as a peep about a blizzard the first five-ish years I live here, and then TWO in less than a month?? Excitin' stuff. I just...

It's snowing lightly, everything looks powdered-sugar dusted. Like a giant sieve in the sky is lightly grating loveliness down upon us. ...

Every day of my Marblehead commute, I meant to write about this, so why not now? Why not? Wonderland Marble. A little out-of-business ... ma...

Tomorrow: 29 and 13. Ha. What did you think I was talking about?? I miss you, too....

As each weekend draws to a close and I start the workweek scramble, I am shocked it's somehow yet another weekend in which I haven't...

Morning after. Overcast sky, the river more than just silent, empty -- devoid. But still reverberating under the silent air are the weekend...

Except, naturally, as I write this, New England weather needs to mock me by being low 60s and sunny. Whatever. Generally speaking, I speak ...

Belatedly, it dawns on me that I should offer some visuals from the awesomeness that was Fight Gone Bad. Right? First link is still photos f...

No moaning & groaning about time elapsed since last post. Not gonna do it. No tears spilling over how much I miss daily posting. Goes wi...

Dear Blog, HOW I MISS YOU!! And how I fear that's the only thing I'll manage to write, whenever I can scrimp a minute, hunched over ...

And there goes another wave of a week, curling back from the shore, regathering itself to reform again. It's just the cycle of life, but...

I have a dilemma. I'm doing a fundraiser to, well, raise funds for 3 really good causes. And I hate asking people for money! So, in my c...

So, one of the things I'm way past due to report is what-all I spend my days doing. Some of you have professed great mystery as to these...

Today, it was fall. A gorgeous day, sunny, brilliantly blue skies and fluffy white clouds, but crispness in the air and a cooler wind blowin...

Today, languid with heat, 90-something, humid, maybe the fifth day like this? Tonight, tomorrow promises a break -- potentially a hurricane ...

Or, having a cold on a 90-something day. Drinking hot "throat coat" tea on a night still so hot I just turned on the bedroom unit ...

Another weekend gone in a blink, with good fun, but too fast gone. Another night, later than I want to be awake, and another time of my sayi...

This would be the morning's Spartan race. SO much fun! A 5k run that went up & down a mountain (at one point, scrambling on my hands...