It snowed a lot – probably a foot - in town last night. I remember some years ago being terrified of driving in any amount of snow, so much so that I’d basically stop where I was when the first flake fell. Last night I stopped to buy a giftmas tree (a little one I …
It is too easy, when making big change, to totally reject what you’ve built before. It is for me, at least. The astounding breadth of what I’m considering work-wise got me thinking that the work I built and the house I bought were all wrong. Too settled and unchallenging. Yeah. Because owning a nearly 100 …
This weekend I tried to make a semi-secluded corner in the yard by putting up trellissy stuff and planting mandevilla (it’s the first step of many, I imagine) and a couple of zinnias. The soil back in that corner looked like it had been in some sort of war zone, so the approach that usually …
I’ve been having a debate about personal property with a colony of ants for the past several weeks. The ants, communists that they are, contend that I am perfectly able to provide them with cat food, popsicle wrappers and leftover bits of fruit; these, they argue, are all things they need – so they’ll come …