The fact that I only know the words “Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope…” (do something, roam maybe?) from the song didn’t stop me from…
Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>
I like the word “recommendation.” Aside from the fact that I feel a pang of anxiety when I have to spell it (which is frequently when you happen to…
Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal…
“Simplify, simplify, simplify,” penned the great Ralph Waldo Emerson in Walden. It’s taken me four years of re-reading his book to get the irony behind that phrase: If living what…
There. I said it. I am a runner. I really have a hard time getting that sentence out. I was the high school girl who spent more time nursing her…
Planning my meals week by week has been an unexpected boon in my life. Not only have I gone from five weekly grocery store trips (Was I crazy before having…