The American journalist Ellen Goodman once said, “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant […]

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been on a pumpkin & squash kick around here lately. Roasted pumpkin seeds, pureed pumpkin…and the butternut squash soup. And as if that weren’t enough, I also made some pumpkin bread last week that we have just been devouring! My first taste of pumpkin bread came about 5 months ago […]

It’s been a few weeks since you were last able to peek into our garden…and there have actually been some noteworthy changes. We’ve had unusually warm weather here for the last few weeks, with only one brief freeze while we were gone (not that we’re sad about missing that). I know the the warm spell […]

You Capture is back and better than ever — and our challenge this week was to capture “mornings.” Our mornings here have changed a bit recently because Mack is now sleeping in a big girl bed and instead of sleeping in like she had been before our Christmas vacation, she’s now up just as Stefan […]

She came. The dreaded meter reader. Every January, we sit and wonder just how severe our bill will be for the previous year…and if the monthly payments we made in advance will actually cover what we burnt up in electricity. You see, since we first bought this house, one of the sorest spots of all has […]