Tag: <span>summer</span>

50 things to do in summer with (or without) kids “Summer’s lease hath far too short a date.” Preach it, Brother.  I mean, it’s Shakespeare, after all.  The man deserves…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

It’s the postman’s tread on my front porch. It’s the tea kettle’s whistle that goes ignored for minutes because the laughter in the other room is too loud. It’s the…

Thoughts and Musings

“EB not know how to fix this bracelet.” It’s today’s tempest in a teapot.  A flimsy plastic purple bracelet (“Hey mom.  This EB’s fav-0-rite color.”) has had the audacity to…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

Last night found me stalking bull frogs around the perimeter of a neighbor’s pond.  My feet squelched in grass boggy from regurgitating the over-abundant rains of the past week.  Little…

Kids and Treasures Wanderings and Travel

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…

Thoughts and Musings

Now here’s a problem I want in my life:  Four pints of raspberries.  Warm to the touch from the sun they drank through the spiky umbilical cords of their mother…

Thoughts and Musings