Six little birds are taking my office window screen. One piece at a time. I usually keep the blinds closed. While I’ve heard their pattering and pecking for about a week, I assumed they were dancing on the ledge doing… bird things. I opened my blinds this morning to find big holes along the bottom…
I don’t chop my wood. Come to think of it, I’ve never chopped a piece of wood. I have a faint memory of what an axe handle feels like in my hand, but I don’t think swinging was ever involved. Michael is a wood chopper, but not much these days, unless we are camping or disposing of…
I love winter mornings. They take their time, a slow and easy build to the day. Summer and Spring mornings are too peppy for me. They jump right into sunrise with a feisty brush of the moon. I need time, a few more minutes with night before I have to say goodbye and good morning.…
There are baby birds living in the wall of my office. As I’ve mentioned before, my office is a large closet off of our laundry room. I have no windows and I’m okay with that. It’s cozy, and a touch isolating which I like. It’s a cave. I share a wall with the outside courtyard…
I live in the United States of American. Today is Election Day for us. We are a fairly educated country. There are all kinds of outreach programs and initiatives to inform voters about the candidates, the issues. If all that doesn’t work, the ad campaigns, commercials and celebrity endorsements should do the trick, right? And…
Is it possible for anyone to get tired of looking at the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty? I mean if you live by these wonders, or if you drive past Niagara Falls on your way to work, if you pass The Arc de Triomphe each day, do you always look in wonder? I’ve…
“I would hate to be a lucky penny on the street today.” ~Maggie Ewens She has a way of looking at the world, outside of herself, questioning and really seeing things. It’s hot. We live in Arizona and it’s July…it’s hot and it doesn’t matter if it’s a dry heat at this point. Arizona is…
Arizona is 100 years old this Valentine’s Day. I woke up early to the sound of pouring rain. It’s one of my favorite things about living here, when it rains, it really rains. The sky opens up, sheets of water drop and then it’s sunny and fresh and beautiful. The day started with rain and…
I don’t watch television at all. Haven’t watched a television show in years. Well, that’s not true I have watched a few episodes of Mad Men and Glee on my computer, but I have not watched anything when it actually aired in forever. Weird, I know, but hands down the very best gift I’ve ever…